Dissection

eco2pia · Mar 30, 2011

I don't know if this counts as "profit" but I lost a litter at birth a month or so ago and today my Highschool Biology students will be dissecting them--I just saved 9 frogs.

I didn't do anything to preserve them, I didn't have the prescence of mind at the time, I just froze them. Because of that they were a little bruised looking around the belly, so I made the initial cut for them and rinsed them thouroghly.

OneAcreFarm · Mar 30, 2011

what a great way to get some good out of a bad situation!

Cattle Cait · Mar 30, 2011

That's a very good idea! I'll keep that in mind when I'm actually a teacher...

Frosted Rabbits · Mar 31, 2011

Did you bill the school for the 'lab animals'?

eco2pia · Mar 31, 2011

It is a homeschooled group, I get paid a very modest amount and the buget is tiny. I donated them.

Miss M · Mar 31, 2011

That's incredible, Eco2pia! I had to dissect a grasshopper. Do you know how hard it is to discern parts inside a grasshopper? "Okay, so this black goo is ______, and that brown goo is ____________..." Learned a lot. Yeah.

(I wanted the rat. But there was only one, and another girl got it after we drew names. Lucky girl. You can tell what the parts are inside of a rat. Your homeschool class is blessed, because those bunnies have discernible organs, and your students will be able to learn from them.

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