1. Anatomy and Physiology
Instructor: Mr. Sheehan
Room: 713 2nd period
E-mail: tsheehan@rcsnc.org
School Website: http://rschs.rcsnc.org/
Office Hours: 7:45 -8:45
Course Description: The Journey into the inner workings of the human body
(This journey may change your view of life, your body, and how life works!)
• Your teacher will be a guide for the journey, a facilitator, an events planner, and
occasionally a source of information.
• Other sources of information will be the textbook, the coloring book, charts and
diagrams, videos, and many internet sources selected by the guide and by yourselves.
• Always remember, you are the learner here! You are the one who needs to actively
acquire knowledge.
• The anatomy~physiology guide (aka teacher) will provide you some of the ways and
means of acquiring knowledge about the human body but you will also actively construct
and generate your own knowledge by interaction with each other, written text (books,
magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, internet "stuff"), graphs and data charts, numbers,
drawings yours and those of others), pictures and movies, sound, microscopes, test tubes,
stethescopes, blood pressure monitors, computers, specimens (aka body parts), EACH
OTHER....and the list goes on......
• who knows where the journey will lead (actually, the guide does), but by the end of the
journey you will be richer in knowledge and experience.
Supplies
• Three ring binder with notebook paper
• Pencil
• Colored pencils
• Computer
*There is a $3.00 lab fee due the first week of school

2. Class Policies
• Each student will be required to display EFFORT when they enter this classroom
• Be in your SEAT prepared for class when the bell rings
• If you are absent it is your responsibility to obtain any assignments you missed while you were
gone
• If you are absent during a lab you must make special arrangements to come in before or after
school to make up the lab or get and alternative assignment
• The laboratory or room must be clean at the end of the period before leaving
• Treat everyone with dignity and respect; NO inappropriate language
• No open food or drinks in this classroom
• No inappropriate use of computers
• All school rules will be followed as stated in the student handbook
Grading:
Tests and Quizzes - 50%
Classwork and Labs - 50%
Grade Percent
A 100 - 93 B 92 - 85 C 84 - 77 D 76 - 70 F Below 70
*Please refer to the North Carolina Essential Standards file located
under the previous link for specific topics that will be covered this
semester.