Paper Dissections

 Is your teen squeamish?  Paul and my husband, Rob, barely made it through synthetic dissections.  Both were green cutting up toys.

Let me share alternatives to using specimens for dissection.  First, traditionally, the specimen set for dissection have a frog, perch, class, earthworm, starfish, grasshopper, and crayfish.   Getting Nerdy with Mel and Gerdy has top of the line paper dissection models.  They are pricey!  Here and here are complete packets for frogs to use with paper, vinyl, synthetic, virtual, or real dissections.  Here  is a free paper frog dissection.  Here is a free paper salmon dissection.  Here is a paper clam dissection.  Use this guide to create your own layers of an earthworm.  Here is a crayfish guide to use to make a paper dissection.  Make an origami cricket and use this grasshopper guide to label the legs.  Compare the crayfish and grasshopper structures.  Here is a sea star or starfish guide to use to create your own paper model.