My daughter's 4th grade teacher this year (big shout-out to Mrs. Johnson) instilled a big love of learning to her whole class.
One of the things she gave to the kids to "play with" over the Summer was the below link, where you can do a Virtual Frog Dissection.
It's really pretty cool. No smelly formaldehyde; no feeling woozy from looking at all the frog carcasses. Anyway, the kids have been having fun with it and (I admit) so have I.
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I couldn't do it in school and I can't do it on the PC. I will let the kids know though...
Okay, I just have to say that I have a LOVE for Frogs. I have little and big frogs sprinkled throughout my home. It's not like I LOVE FROGS but just kinda subtle... Anyway, I never really liked the whole science class thing of cutting up those cute little buggers. I was really happy when I heard about this Virtual Disection. You just gave us something fun to do today!
Sugar - my husband has a "thing" for frogs too. We have this very serious looking frog planter on our back deck. He's got a crown on, and yellow flowers are growing out of his head, but he has a very serious look on his face.
Suz - really? I never knew that.... I loved Biology - always one of my favorite classes. (Don't you remember Mr. Medlock???) Couldn't stand the formaldehyde smell though... I guess that's why I like this dissection website so much. I bet your girls will like it.
Because of lack of donors, some med schools have been going to more of a virtual gross anatomy. I have mixed feelings about this, but one thing is sure. It would be a lot less messy and smelly.
After some dissections, the smell could stay with you for weeks.
Deron,
NPR did an interesting multi-part segment a few years back about medical students and the "bond" they wound up having with their assigned cadavers. It was really quite interesting. If you can search the NPR archives, it's definitely worth a listen.
Very cool--thanks! We homeschool and this is great! :)
Yeah, my husband is a physician and in med school the professor who ran the cadaver lab insisted on total respect and even did a cool ceremony of thanks as well. Very neat.
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