Many surgeons say that they first discovered their life’s passion standing over a dissected fetal pig in a middle school or high school Science class. I want to give our students their first dissecting experience by dissecting a fetal. This opportunity will give them an appreciation for the complexity of organisms in a hands-on Science lesson they will never forget.
In dissecting an animal, students see, touch, and explore the various body organs and measure and compare them.
Seeing these organs and understanding how they work within a single animal allows students to understand how these systems work within many other animals, including themselves. They increase the opportunity for students to observe, reason, and identify parts that can look nothing like what they have seen in a textbook or imagined in their minds. Science is such an abstract world for middle and high schoolers. Through this lesson, I hope to spark a passion for Science in our students that may someday lead to a future Scientist, Doctor, or Inventor.
Also, I hope that by learning about their bodies through dissection, students will come to respect how their bodies work and think about how they treat them and what they put into them.
I can still remember, as a young student, feeling nervous and excited to experience my first dissection. To give our students this experience would mean a lot.
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