Tyrone Hayes, a frog researcher), and mythology (the Frog Prince and other stories). The Exploratorium had a great exhibit on frogs with excellent, student-friendly, web resources about frog behavior (listen to frog calls), biology (meet Dr.To learn more about frogs, visit the following websites: It is an excellent resource for teachers, for students to preview or review the material, and as an alternative to an actual frog dissection. The best resource that I have found for frog dissections is Net Frog by Mabel Kinzie has a fabulous interactive virtual frog dissection including many multimedia resources such as videos and narration for every step of the dissection. Optional: dissection pins (especially useful if you have dissection trays on which to use them).Its sophisticated 3D anatomy visualization system provides the user with the same experience as working on an actual cadaver.Ĭhandrasekera said the table was developed at Stanford University and features images from four human cadavers.Ĭhandrasekera and her roving scientific team have previously visited four other high schools to introduce the faux frogs and show the dissection Lorrhea Marion, a student at Villanova, took part in a Virtual Dissection demonstration at Villanova Catholic High School. One of her graphics noted that since dissections became part of the classroom experience in the 1920s in North America, between six to 10 million animals have been killed for that purpose alone.Īs an added bonus to Wednesday’s presentation, the UWindsor team also brought along its virtual dissection table, one of just five in Canada. “And students can achieve the same learning expectations.” In her presentation to the class, Chandrasekera noted how countries such as the Netherlands, Switzerland, Argentina, the Slovak Republic and Israel have completely banned animal testing while others are moving away from the practice. “This technology helps us learn in different ways we never thought possible before,” Fister said. Charu Chandrasekera, left, works the amazing Anatomage Table, a 3D anatomy visualization system which was developed using real, human cadavers. Villanova students discover the new era of biology and anatomy education during a virtual technology demonstration at Villanova Catholic High School. There’s a lot more learning that can happen here.”ĭan Fister, the board’s executive superintendent of innovation and experiential learning, first spoke with Chandrasekera a year ago about eliminating animal dissection from the high school curriculum.
This gives them more opportunity to learn and you can put them back together. “With frogs you have them for one day and you throw them away. “This gives our students the opportunity to keep learning,” said Jobin who was in the Villanova lab to watch the students break out the kits. Gisele Jobin, the board’s science curriculum consultant, agrees. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. “I feel like if people have a fear of germs or if they’re really afraid of (a dead frog) they’re not going to be able to touch them or learn as much,” Berg said. “I can see it for myself, put it together for myself and learn a lot more.”įellow student Olivia Berg also preferred the synthetic frog to the real version. “Definitely, I’m really squeamish with things like that so working with these (dissection) kits, it’s not gross,” said 15-year-old Lorrhea Marion. In photo, students check out an amazing Anatomage Table, a 3D anatomy visualization system which was developed using real, human cadavers.
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Through Chandrasekera’s fundraising and sponsorship efforts, all eight WECDSB secondary schools have been supplied with faux frog dissection kits as well as accompanying software and an augmented reality T-shirt that allows students to study respiratory, digestive and circulatory systems when paired with a human anatomy app. Article content This technology helps us learn in different ways we never thought possible before