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• Course information, office hours, book, grading and exams, etc.
• Register Your Book Here
• Choose the required or optional book you wish to register. Registration is required to take exams, unless you request paper exams.
• Online Grades Site
• This link takes you to your student resource site. Check here to be sure your practice exams and other exams have been submitted and posted. Other resources at this site include terms to know, topic information, etc.
• Go to the Faulkner Press Help Site For Information On:
• Completing online exercises.
• Obtaining your serial number.
• Resubmitting Scores.
• Firewall settings and software use.
• Problems connecting to Faulkner Press services through the internet.
• Installing on a new computer.
• Product player error, script error, Do you want to continue?
• Using the product on more than one computer.
• Courseware box code.
• Honor Code : Please be familiar with the University Honor Code that you signed when you registered at UF.

Important Notice: It is important for you to get started on your readings. Install your software and register it at the link given above. Before starting the program go online. To start the program click on the dinosaur icon on your desk top. The opening screen has a bar labeled "View Reference Material", click on the bar. The "Library" of the Activity window is now open. Click on the menu tab on the left of the screen to open the "Library". You will see four "Sections", each corresponds to topics grouped by exam. For example, all the topics for exam 1 are in "Section One". Open "Section One" and you will see all seven topics to be covered prior to exam one. The first week of class you should read "Geologic Time and Principles" (Topic One) and "Weathering and Erosion" (Topic Two). Click on each of these chapters to open them. Chapters have web links and picture links with audio. Pictures open up in the "Presentation" window and audio can be played by pressing the audio button at the top of the "Presentation" screen. Video links also are identified in the text. Dr Ciesielski will demonstrate other aspects of the software to you in class.

Explore your online grades site linked to above. This new secure online site provides you with all your grades for practice exams and other course exams. Login with your email address and your password. You will find the same "News and Events" announcements that I post to your ebook software in the opening window. An important component is "Session Material", designed to help you understand the material and prepare for tests. This section gives topic outlines, objectives, terms and concepts to know, concept questions, and a link to print practice questions for each topic.

Class Meeting	LECTURE TOPIC Your text assignments for each week are below.	ASSIGNED  READINGS  IN EBOOK
Aug. 25 (Mon.)	Geologic Time and Geologic Principles  Weathering and Erosion	TOPIC 1 TOPIC 2
Sept. 01 (Mon.)	No class: Monday is Labor Day, your readings for the week are: Tombs of Dinosaurs: Sedimentary Rocks Not All Rocks are Created Equal: Sedimentary Environments	TOPIC 3 TOPIC 4
Sept. 8 (Mon.)	What is a Fossil and How Do Fossils Form? Plate Tectonics: Parts I-II	TOPIC 5 TOPIC 6
Sept. 15 (Mon.)	Plate Tectonics: Parts III-V Breaking Up Pangaea	TOPIC 6  TOPIC 7
	Online Exercise 1 is open Thursday Sept. 18th, ends at 11PM. The exam code will posted in the opening window of your software "Class News and Events" window and to your online grades page  &  I am opening the "Walking With Dinosaurs" exam. You may take it anytime prior to 11 PM Dec. 10th. The exam code will posted in the opening window of your software "Class News and Events" window and to your online grades page. VHS and DVD copies (~150 copies) are available for 1 day checkout at the Science Library reserve desk.	Exam 1:  Topics 1-7
Sept. 22 (Mon.)	The Physical World of Dinosaurs Plants as Dinosaur Fuel Evolution, Phylogeny, and Classification	TOPIC 8 TOPIC 9 TOPIC 10
Sept. 29 (Mon.)	Evolution, Phylogeny, and Classification continued Dinosaur Ancestors Collecting Dinosaurs	TOPIC 10 TOPIC 11 TOPIC 12
	Skip this topic- there is no extra credit	TOPIC 13
Oct. 6 (Mon.)	Bone Wars and Dinosaur Hunters These topics reproduce three papers written between 1904 and 1919 by the discoverers of major dinosaur finds in Mongolia, Canada, and Colorado. Know only general subjects of these papers. Basic Dinosaur Anatomy What Did Dinosaurs Look Like?	TOPIC 14 TOPICS 15-17  TOPIC 18  TOPIC 19
Oct. 13 (Mon.)	Dinosaur Reproduction, Maternal Care, and Growth Rates.	TOPIC 20
	Online Exercise 2 is open Thursday Oct.  16th, the deadline is 11PM. The exam code will posted in the opening window of your software "Class News and Events" window and to your online grades web site.	Exam 2: Topics 8-20
	begin reading Theropoda (no on second test)	TOPIC 21
Oct. 20 (Mon.)	Sauropodomorpha	TOPIC 22
Oct. 27 (Mon.)	Ornithopoda	TOPIC 23
Nov. 3 (Mon.)	Thyreophora: Stegosauria Thyreophora: Ankylosauria	TOPIC 24 TOPIC 25
Nov. 10 (Mon.)	Dinosaur Tracks, Trackways, and Other Trace Fossils. Dinosaur Physiology, Injuries, and Disease Online Exercise 3 is open Thursday Nov. 13th, the deadline is 11PM. The exam code will posted in the opening window of your software "Class News and Events" window and to your online grades web site.	TOPIC 26  TOPIC 27 Exam 3:  Topics 21-25
Nov. 17 (Mon.)	Marginocephalia: Ceratopsia Marginocephalia: Pachycephalosauria	TOPIC 28 TOPIC 29
Nov. 24 (Mon.)	Dinosaurs: Warm-blooded or Cold-blooded? Dinosaur Quarries and the Thrill of Discovery These topics reproduce two papers written about Dinosaur National Monument and Bone Cabin Quarry discoveries. Know only general subjects of these papers.	TOPIC 30 TOPIC 31  TOPICS 32-33
Dec. 1 (Mon.	Dinosaur Records and Interesting Facts Marine reptiles of the Mesozoic	TOPIC 34 TOPIC 35
Dec. 8 (Mon.)	Pterosaurs Extinction of the Dinosaurs	TOPIC 36 TOPIC 37
	Online Exercise 4 is open on Wednesday, Dec. 10th, deadline at 11PM. The exam code will posted in the opening window of your software "Class News and Events" window and to your online grades site.  &  Deadline (Dec. 10th at 11PM) for the "Walking With Dinosaurs" exam & Deadline (Dec. 10th at 11PM) for Practice Exams	Exam 4: Topics 26-37