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The minks will be used in a special way to have students compare human anatomy to other mammals. When students study anatomy, diseases, genetics and system patterns we focus on human anatomy and structure. The minks are very similar to our own anatomy and is a easy tool to help the students understand structure and function to almost all human anatomy parts because of the live hands-on activity. Through this unit, students learn the structure and basic structure first, then they study the system that anatomical structure comes from, and finally they dissect the mink to look at that structure, or something similar in real time. A simple example is with the muscles. Students are able to move the arm of the mink to see how the femoris contracts and relaxes. So students are receiving a visual and physical representation of what we are learning in class. If we want our students to be college and career ready, we need to be able to give them examples in that field in fun hands-on activities that they can relate to, as well as it make sense to them at the age they are at, and for biology dissections is a great tool for these students. The students really love dissections due to the fact that, for many students, this is the field they want to get into and they see a version of what they would be doing in college if they chose science as a career.

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The minks will be used in a special way to have students compare human anatomy to other mammals. When students study anatomy, diseases, genetics and system patterns we focus on human anatomy and structure. The minks are very similar to our own anatomy and is a easy tool to help the students understand structure and function to almost all human anatomy parts because of the live hands-on activity. Through this unit, students learn the structure and basic structure first, then they study the system that anatomical structure comes from, and finally they dissect the mink to look at that structure, or something similar in real time. A simple example is with the muscles. Students are able to move the arm of the mink to see how the femoris contracts and relaxes. So students are receiving a visual and physical representation of what we are learning in class. If we want our students to be college and career ready, we need to be able to give them examples in that field in fun hands-on activities that they can relate to, as well as it make sense to them at the age they are at, and for biology dissections is a great tool for these students. The students really love dissections due to the fact that, for many students, this is the field they want to get into and they see a version of what they would be doing in college if they chose science as a career.

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