Animal Dissections

 I’m in favor of animal dissections—with seven specimens. If your budget is limited, buy a frog, fish, and earthworm to dissect.  Do you need a complete kit?  I teach Biology classes fairly often and have tools, trays, and guides for my Co-op classes.  You don’t need anything fancy.   Aside from a set of specimens, buy a few T-pins.  Save styrofoam trays or use paper plates.  Skip the scalpel and use a small pair of sharp scissors.  I bought dissection guides from HST because they are  easier to use during a dissection.  Here are more guides.  The dissection guides in Apologia Biology are well written, too.  I just don’t like having the textbook out during a dissection in case of something landing on the book.  Ew.  The next few posts will have resources for specific lab specimens, including paper and virtual dissections.