Week 5 — Readings & Resources

Human Anatomy and Physiology I Free sample edition

Your primary reading is Chapter 5 (in this module). Everything below is the optional, go-deeper layer — pick what helps, skip the rest.

How to use this page

This page has 10 items (4 readings and 6 videos). Allow 73–83 minutes for everything. Each group points back to the matching chapter section and class-session segment, so use the full menu when you want more, or take the quick path below.

Every video here has captions: turn them on with the CC button in the player. The chapter covers the same ideas in text.

Pick-one quick path (19–23 min total)

① Reading epithelium off a slide

Chapter 5, Section “Name an epithelium: layers first, shape second” · Session 1, Segment 3, “Two words: layers first, shape second” · Remember: an epithelium's name gives its layers first and its cell shape second, and the name predicts the job.

Tissues, Part 1: Crash Course Anatomy & Physiology #2 — CrashCourse — a fast, friendly opening episode on the four tissue families and how tissues are stained and studied under a microscope; listen for the verb each family does, and hold the chapter's four verbs beside its list. (video, 11 min) (captions: creator)
Epithelium — Histology Guide — the epithelium chapter of the free virtual microscope your lab uses, with a short write-up on layers, cell shape, the basement membrane, and why an epithelium is fed by diffusion; read the classification part, then open one slide from its list and name it with two words. This builds on Week 3's work with diffusion: the nutrients still move from higher to lower concentration. (reading, 8–12 min)
Epithelial Tissue Histology Explained for Beginners — Corporis — a calm, beginner-level walk through epithelium as it looks under a microscope; it also shows two types this course does not test, so focus on simple squamous, stratified squamous, and simple columnar. (video, 8 min) (captions: creator)
Identifying Epithelium: Review and Practice Questions — Anatomy Hero — a short set of strategies for telling epithelia apart, followed by practice slides you name yourself; pause before each answer and say the layer word first and the shape word second. Use it while working through the Week-5 module overview. (video, 14 min) (captions: creator)

② Cells scattered in a matrix

Chapter 5, Section “Build around the matrix: connective tissue” · Session 2, Segment 5, “Connective tissue: cells scattered in a matrix” · Remember: connective tissue is cells scattered in a matrix of ground substance and protein fibers, and blood is one of them.

Tissues, Part 3 - Connective Tissues: Crash Course Anatomy & Physiology #4 — CrashCourse — a lively episode on the matrix, its fiber kinds, and the cells that build it; it sorts connective tissue into more classes than this course does, so map what it says onto the chapter's three categories. (video, 10 min) (captions: creator)
Explainer: what’s actually in our blood? — Australian Red Cross Lifeblood — a short explainer from a national blood service on what blood carries: a pale fluid, the plasma, with red cells, platelets, and white cells suspended in it; read the opening and the parts on each cell type, and notice that the page talks about blood as a fluid, while this course classifies it as a connective tissue whose liquid matrix is the plasma. (reading, 4–6 min)

③ Muscle, nerve, and the body's linings

Chapter 5, Section “Tell the three muscle tissues apart” · Session 2, Segment 6, “Three muscle tissues” · Remember: skeletal and cardiac muscle are both striated, so look past the stripes to the branching cells and intercalated discs that mark cardiac muscle.

Muscle Histology Explained for Beginners — Corporis — a beginner-level look at skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle under the microscope; stop when it moves on to the layers around the heart, which go beyond this course. (video, 9 min) (captions: creator)
Neurons and Glia: Basic Components of the Nervous System — BrainFacts.org, Society for Neuroscience — a short illustrated primer on the two cell families in nervous tissue, the signaling neurons and the supporting glia; read it for the big picture and skim the list of glial types, which a later week names one by one. (reading, 4–6 min)
Body Membranes - Types Of Membranes In The Body — Whats Up Dude — a two-minute tour of the mucous, serous, synovial, and cutaneous membranes and where each one sits; ask of each lining whether its cavity is open to the outside. (video, 2 min) (captions: creator)

Optional one-stop reference (free online reference)

Body Tissues — SEER Training Modules, National Cancer Institute — the course's free online anatomy reference, open at its page on the four tissue types; read the overview and its short pages on each type, and skip the cancer-registration material elsewhere on the site. (reading, 3–5 min)

Heads-up (links rot): these point to outside sites that occasionally move or rename pages. If a link ever fails, tell your instructor and use the reference above in the meantime.

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