Your blog this week will be a narrative about someone in your family's dissection lesson in high school biology. Who did you interview? How long ago was the dissection? What did they dissect? What did they like best? What did they like least? How well do they remember it? Did they have a lab practical afterwards? (You will!) Commenting on someone else's post is optional this week.
Sunday, November 9, 2014
All About That Frog
This is it...frog dissection week. I thought it would be fun to have you interview your parents, guardians, siblings or even grandparents about their biology dissection experience. Obviously, we will be dissecting frogs and here is a little "Rainbow Connection" to get your creative juices flowing.
Your blog this week will be a narrative about someone in your family's dissection lesson in high school biology. Who did you interview? How long ago was the dissection? What did they dissect? What did they like best? What did they like least? How well do they remember it? Did they have a lab practical afterwards? (You will!) Commenting on someone else's post is optional this week.
Your blog this week will be a narrative about someone in your family's dissection lesson in high school biology. Who did you interview? How long ago was the dissection? What did they dissect? What did they like best? What did they like least? How well do they remember it? Did they have a lab practical afterwards? (You will!) Commenting on someone else's post is optional this week.
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I interviewed my dad. Twenty three years ago when he was in eighth grade my dad dissected a frog. Before that he dissected an earthworm as well. He remembers it decently well. Least he liked the smell, but he said it was fun to watch the girls reaction to the dissection in class. They did have a lab practical afterward in his class.
ReplyDeleteWow. He dissected in 8th grade. That must have been one very brave 8th grade teacher. I was not a big fan of dissecting earthworms. There wasn't much to see.
DeleteI decided to ask my mom on her past experience on dissecting animals. My mom dissected a cat in 1985, her senior year of high school. She enjoyed learning the anatomy of the cat; but disliked the smell of the formaldehyde. Consequently, the smell of the formaldehyde caused her to remember the experiment still to this day. After the experiment she had a lab practical and had to be able to identify the parts of the cat.
ReplyDeleteNikhil,
DeleteWhere did your mom go to high school? I did not get to dissect a cat until college. Mrs. LeMoine has the AP biology students dissect cats as a culminating activity after the AP exam.
My mom went to high school in Big Rapids, MI and I thought it was also interesting how she dissected a cat in high school.
DeleteI chose to interview my mom, Jennifer. The pig dissection took place thirty years ago during her sophomore year in high school. Her favorite part of the dissection process was seeing and comparing how a pig’s internal structure was more similar to a human’s than to a frog’s she had previously dissected. Her least favorite part was the smell of the preservation fluid. She remembers it vividly and still has recurring nightmares. Just kidding, but she remembers it well. Like us, my mom had to take a practical and was asked to point out specific organs, tendons and other body parts.
ReplyDeleteJaylynn,
DeleteThe pig is my favorite thing that I have ever dissected. I talked to Mr. Osterberg and he thinks by the time that you are a senior, that they will be dissecting pigs in Anatomy. Maybe you should sign up?
I interviewed my brother Kurt. He dissected a frog during his freshman year, which was five years ago. Already into biology, he enjoyed learning about the anatomy of one of his favorite amphibians. His favorite thing about it was watching all the girls in his class freak out when they touched the frog guts. However, he was not very fond of the smell. He still remembers the experience quite well, since he apparently has a knack for tearing dead animals apart. After the dissection, he too had to complete a lab practical.
ReplyDeleteMia,
DeleteIt will be interesting to see if there are any screaming girls in our class.
I interviewed my sister and she too dissected a frog. We all agreed that the smell is nasty
DeleteI interviewed my dad and he dissected a small shark 30 years ago when he was in High School. He was interested in how small the organs were and how compact they were in the body. He did not like the smell of formaldehyde when he was in the classroom, this smell is vivid in his mind. He remembers the main parts of the lab but not everything. He had a lab practical just like we will.
ReplyDeleteMav,
DeleteI also dissected a shark in both high school and college. It is by far the stinkiest thing I have every dissected. Just like your dad, I can totally remember the smell....YUCK.
I interviewed my mother, Henriette. She dissected a frog 37 years ago in her sophomore Biology class. She remember the smell of the Formaldehyde. She remembers the frog feeling tough. They did the same thing we did with cutting the skin and reviling the organs inside. She remembers it being difficult to find some of the underside organs like the heart and the lungs. She said that her teacher went around afterwards and had them identify the organs on their frogs individually.
DeleteI interviewed my sister. When she was in biology two years ago, she dissected a worm, fish, and crawfish. She loved dissecting the fish and her favorite part was cutting the animal open to find the internal organs. (Gross!) Understandably, her least favorite part was the smell. My sister says she remembers the process well, but not identification of organs. Unlike ours, there was no lab practical afterwards.
ReplyDeleteWhere did your sister go to school?
DeleteI chose to interview my father who dissected a frog when he was a high school sophomore back 32 years ago. He vividly remembers the smell of formaldehyde which was the worst part of the lab, he said. The best part of the lab he said was how they learned how the frog functioned and worked. He still remembers the lab to this day. He also had to do a Lab Practical on the frog and identify the parts.
ReplyDeleteI interviewed my dad and he dissected a frog back when he was in high school. He has also dissected a fish. This was in his sophomore year in 1981. He remembers the smell of the formaldehyde too. He liked the how it was different than a normal experiment and more hands on. My uncle when he was in Medical school he dissected a dead person. They take the organs out and examine them. This was around 1991 when he did the person dissection. My dad remembers doing a lab practical when he dissected the frog.
ReplyDeleteTrevor,
DeleteWhat kind of Doctor is your uncle?
I also interviewed my mom about her frog dissection. She enjoyed doing the dissection and was one of the only ones willing to touch the frog. She also remembers the formaldehyde and lab practical she had to do after it.
ReplyDeleteOver 32 years ago my mom dissected a frog, a fetal pig, and a cat. The only thing was her “favorite” part was comparing the anatomy of the animals dissected to the anatomy to a human. The worst part for her was having to dissect a pregnant cat, because it was just hard to see all those kittens dead. Also like anybody the smell was awful. She seems to have remember the dissections pretty well and had to do a lab practical as we will on Friday.
ReplyDeleteThe person I interviewed was my mother, who just recently dissected a pig a couple years ago. My mother’s favorite part was actually the process of cutting the pig open, and seeing what’s inside in a first person perspective. She also mentioned that she didn’t have anything that caused her to dislike it. Since it was only a couple years ago, she remembers quite clearly. Fortunately, she didn’t have a lab practical afterwards.
ReplyDeleteJustin,
DeleteWhat type of class was your mom taking? What is she studying for?
The person I chose to interview for this week’s blog is my sister Kelly. About a year ago she had the chance to dissect a frog in Mr. Osterberg’s Honor’s Biology class. What she liked most about the dissection was the experience. After the initial few steps of slicing the frog open, she said it was interesting to how the organs fit together in an actual organism not just a picture. The worst part of her experience was the smell, Kelly described the smell as very pungent and noted that it “cleared the sinuses.” She remembers the dissection like it was only last year. Kelly told me that after the dissection her class had a difficult lab practical. I now look forward to mine this Friday. Overall, my sister described her frog dissection experience as unique, but not necessary something she wants to do again.
ReplyDeleteI am sure that your sister remembers it clearly as it was only last year.
DeleteI interviewed my dad who disected a cadaver in medical school 20 years ago. He was interested in seeing parts of the human body, such as the brain and cranial nerves. One of his favorite parts was being able to learn more about how our organs work and how our bodies work as well. It was also interesting for him to see how complex our bodies really are! Working on this lab is very clear in my dad's mind because it was a real human body and it was so realistic. It was both stressful as well as a learning experience; he remembers someone almost fainting! Overall this was important in finding out about humans!
ReplyDeleteMy dad did have a lab practical afterwords to know about the different human body parts!
ReplyDeleteShreya,
DeleteWhat type of doctor is your dad?
I interviewed my mother about her dissection experience, which turns out not to have occurred during her high school years but far more recent as a life science teacher. The last time she dissected a frog was about three years ago with her class, who found it just as interesting as we did. "I think it's interesting to see the contents of the frog's stomach" said she, "what their last supper consisted of." I would almost agree, but I think the small intestine was the best organ to examine. My mom's least favorite experience from frog dissection was the year that she got sick from the smell of the frogs, something that hadn't happened any other time and took her by surprise. Thank goodness our frogs didn't smell too bad! Her class did NOT have to take a lab practical. Also, my mom recommends dissecting a crayfish because the physiology is very different from a frog, and you have to cut the exoskeleton which is pretty neat. (I've dissected a crayfish, so I concur!)
ReplyDeleteI will have to try and get some crayfish.
DeleteInterviewed my aunt, Alison, who has dissected a lot of things, and seems to remember it clearly. She told me about dissecting a cat when she was a Senior, in he Human Physiology class. She and her friends named their cat Lively, because he was anything but. Then, when she became a teacher and had to teach an oceanography unit to her second graders, she learned how to dissect a squid. When she taught the oceanography unit, she dissected it with them. She told me the thing she liked best about dissecting was seeing things you can't usually see, and the thing she liked least, was, obviously, the smell. She didn't have a lab practical after she dissected the cat in high school. Overall, I think she enjoys dissecting things more than I do!
ReplyDeleteWhere does your aunt teach? I have heard that dissecting squid is super cool. You can actually get them at your local grocery store.
DeleteFor this assignment, I interviewed my dad and got quite the story. Dad said that when he was in 8th grade, the class had to disect frogs. During the direction, he remembers hearing the girl at the lab bench next to his say "I dare you to do it." During the reminder of the disection, he watched the girl and the boy fight until the boy finally said that he would do it. My dad watched the boy pop the eyes out of the frog, and then put both eyes in his mouth and swallowed them whole. Dad remembers that the class got quiet, and when the teacher asked what happened, the girl told on the boy, then the teacher called the boy's parents to take him to the hospital to get his stomach pumped. Dad doesn't remember if their was a lab write up or not, and if their was, it was probably an essay on why you shouldn't eat frog eyes.
ReplyDeleteGross! I bet the boy got in huge trouble when he got home from the hospital.
DeleteI interviewed my Mom about her dissection experience. She dissected a frog and was 15 years old. She told me the best part was when her best friend screamed because her frog’s leg moved on it’s own. Her least favorite part was the smell and the fact that they were dissecting something that use to be alive. My Mom remembered it, but not crystal clearly, it was 42 years ago! And lastly, no my Mom did not have to do a lab practical. But they did have a test on it, which is similar, sorta.
ReplyDeleteI chose to interview my dad. He said he dissected a frog when he was a freshman or sophomore but isn't completely sure. He doesn't remember the dissection particularly well but he does remember enjoying some people's dramatic reactions. The smell in his opinion was definitely the worst part. He doesn't believe he had a lab practical afterwards, but he said it was on a test they took soon after TE dissection.
ReplyDeleteMy auntie Sandrika dissected a cat in her senior year of high school, 1999. The first thought going through my aunts head was “I don’t want to do this” which is so funny because she does not seem like the person to be squeamish about things. Something weird was that they had to name their cat and her lab group decided to name it Pikachu! Their professor was walking around to make sure each person took part in the lab and my auntie had to remove both the small and large intestine. A cooler story is my auntie Debbie dissected a human body! She is a nurse and her first degree was in natural science at the University of Alabama and to get that degree she had to dissect a human body. Her first time dissecting she dissected a cat and going into it she was very apprehensive about it. She thought it would be bloody and gruesome but then she found out all the blood was drained and the cat’s body was preserved. Now when she was doing the cadaver she was excited and they did a full body dissection. She very distinctly remembers the formaldehyde smell and said she will never forget it. They looked at the muscles, membranes, everything! Once they finished the lab they had to spray the whole body down with formaldehyde which I thought was super cool!
ReplyDeleteI wish I had been able to dissect a cadaver.
DeleteI interviewed my mom and dad. The dissection they remember most was their senior year of high school (1988) in AP Biology, when they dissected a cat. They both agreed that their favorite part was seeing what was inside the cat, and how it related to other mammals that had a similar makeup. The worst part of the dissection, they both said simultaneously, was the smell. Dissecting the cat is still very vivid in their memory; my mom said it was a highlight of Bio. As a final test, they had to do a lab practical, and name all the parts of the cat. Overall, they enjoyed the experience and claimed to have learned a lot from it.
ReplyDeleteDid your parents go to high school together?
DeleteIn reply to Nikhil: My mom dissected a cat her senior year too. The smell, she agreed, was definitely the worse part of the dissection.
ReplyDeleteI interviewed my brother Brett who is a senior in highschool. He dissected when he was a freshmen all those years ago. He dissected a frog just like we did this week. He thought it was pretty interesting how different a frog was compared to a human. He said he did not like the smell of the frog. I guess he said the smell stuck with him for a whole year after the dissection. He did remember having to take a lab practical afterwards just like we will have to do this Friday.
ReplyDeleteYour blog this week will be a narrative about someone in your family's dissection lesson in high school biology. Who did you interview? How long ago was the dissection? What did they dissect? What did they like best? What did they like least? How well do they remember it? Did they have a lab practical afterwards? (You will!) Commenting on someone else's post is optional this week.
ReplyDeleteI interviewed my mom, who dissected a frog in eighth grade (32 years ago!) and a fish, a crayfish and worms in ninth grade. She was supposed to dissect a fetal pig in AP Biology her senior year in high school, but her family moved two weeks before, and she was very relieved to miss out on that experience. She remembers her eighth grade teacher showing the class how to euthanize the frogs using a jar and a cotton ball with some kind of anesthetic and formaldehyde. The school used live frogs, not already preserved ones. When she dissected the frog, she had her lab partner do the cutting and she did the diagramming and identifying. Her lab partner ended up cutting the eyeballs out of several frogs and throwing them at nearby girls, including my mom, who freaked out! Yes, they had a lab practical where they had to go around to different tables and frogs and identify parts. She also told me a story about my aunt’s experience with the same teacher two years later. My aunt always had pet turtles, toads, snakes, etc. when she was a kid, so she was horrified that they had to kill the frogs. The day before the lab she went into the classroom at lunchtime (they had open labs with dividers and no doors) and released a whole container of frogs out of the back entrance. She was caught and suspended for a week. When she returned to class, her teacher was going to have her make up the lab, but she burst into tears and ran out of the room. The principal finally agreed that she should be excused from the dissection. I don't think that I even could have removed the frogs eyes to throw them if I tried.
Nick,
DeleteWhere did your mom and sister go to school? This would make a great short story.
They went to school in a suburb of St. Louis
DeleteI interviewed my dad. He dissected an earth worm over 40 years ago. His favorite part was finding the heart and teasing the squeamish girls with it. He told me he liked every part of it and found it super interesting. He remembered everything pretty well for it being so long ago. He said he didn't have a lab practical afterwards (lucky). My dad also said he got to dissect a frog and pig later on in high school.
ReplyDeleteI interviewed my dad and he dissected a frog in 1976 when he was a junior in high school. The thing my dad liked best was how the organs were different colors because of the dye. The thing my dad liked the least was cutting the frog open because it was a weird feeling to him. My dad remembers the dissection well because he said it was a cool experience. He didn't have a lab practical after the dissection instead, his class had a diagram of the frogs body parts on a sheet of paper and they had to name all of the parts.
ReplyDeleteI think its interesting that the parts were different colors because of the dye. I agree with him when he said it felt weird to cut it open. I can barely describe it. I also agree with him that it was a cool experience. It was something my parents and my grandparents and my aunt have been talking about for years and it was really cool to finally experience it. I know that I will keep this memory for a while.
DeleteThe person I interviewed was my Dad. About 25 years ago he dissected frogs in his freshman year. But he also had dissected cockroaches, and worms. He liked the frog better because he could see all the parts since its bigger. The cockroaches were his least favorite. Although, he did say he remembered it pretty well actually. At the end of the labs, he did have to do a lab practical.
ReplyDeleteI interviewed my mom this week. She had dissected a frog in eighth grade, in 1979. My mom liked how she got to see all of the different parts of the frog. Her least favorite part was when she was slicing open the frog, because she was nervous she would do something wrong. She didn't have a very good experience because the formaldehyde was gagging her, and she ended up throwing up in the classroom sink. My mom remembers the classroom smelling so bad all week that she went home sick. She thinks that she had to take a lab practical, but she’s not really sure because she was so sick. Thankfully our class didn't have the same reaction.
ReplyDeleteYour poor mom. Luckily our frogs did not smell too bad.
DeleteI interviewed my brother. When he was a freshman 2 years ago he dissected a frog. What he liked best about the dissection was the experience of having to find all the different parts if the frog. His least favorite part was the smell that was present in the room the entire dissection. Finally he did have a lab practical afterword and that was also his least favorite part of the whole dissection. Because it was a challenging thing to do.
ReplyDeleteI interviewed my mom who, 20 years ago as a sophomore dissected a frog. She didn't have a favorite part she thought he whole experience was kind of gross, but she remembered it smelling like a funeral home. She remembered the whole thing pretty well. But unlike us they did not have a lab practical afterwards.
ReplyDeleteThe person I interviewed was my Dad. He has dissected a frog. He did it 35 years ago in 1979 his sophomore year of high school. He does recall the experience fairly well and he thought it was interesting, but he knew what to expect before performing the experiment from people he knees past experiences. He liked actually seeing the organs in person rather than in books. He didn't like the smell of the animals. He also dissected a baby pig, worm, and some sort of fish he recalls and no he didn't do a lab practical.
ReplyDeleteI interviewed my mom, she had dissected the frog her freshman year as well. She went to south and she said that when she dissected it, it did not have a smell like ours. I don't think she had the frogs prepared and packaged as we did. But she also had a pregnant frog and hers was much worse than ours and she had to remove the eggs herself. She did not have to do a lab practical afterwards but the lab itself was much more than just 20 points.
ReplyDeleteI interviewed my dad on his dissection. He dissected a worm and a frog in 8th grade about 30 years ago, in his Sophomore year he dissected a cat, and in college, he dissected a feral pig, a pig fetus, a cow's eye, and a lambs brain. His words on his experience, "I am dissecting king, I could dissect anything you want"
ReplyDeleteI interviewed my mom. My mom dissected a cadaver in 1988 at Marquette. Her favorite part was learning about muscles, nerves, organs, and the rest of the body. She was able to cut open the rib cage and see the heart and lungs, and dissect those. By the condition of the lungs, they believed he was a smoker. Another interesting part of the dissection was she was able to cut open the skull to reveal the brain. Her least favorite part was the smell of formaldehyde. She would go back to her dorm smelling like it, right before dinner. She had numerous lab practicals on the dissection. She had to identify nerves, tendons, muscles, and organs that were tagged, just by sight. She still remembers doing the dissection like it was yesterday. Because of the dissection, it was one of her favorite classes ever.
ReplyDeleteI interviewed my mom and my dad and they both did frog dissection in 1978. The part that my mom loved about frog dissection was the stomach because she found flies in it and it was the largest organ. On the other hand she hated the smell of the frog. My dad loved the lungs because the way they looked and he as well didn't like the smell. Both of my mom and dad didn't remember the frog dissection that well, only their least and favorite parts. Finally, my parents didn't have a lab practical, all they did was just the dissection and the observing of the frogs.
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ReplyDeleteI interviewed my dad and he said in High School he dissected a guinea pig. This dissection was about 30 years ago. My dad liked the way he got to learn about what is inside an animal. The thing he liked least was how it was really gross and the liquid the guinea pig was kept in smelt disgusting. He said he can only remember parts of it. He remember most of what the guinea pig looked like, and also using the scapol. when I asked him if he had a lab practical afterward he said he never did a lab practical in high school.
I interviewed my sister, Elizabeth, for this, who is currently in Anatomy and Physiology. About 1-1 ½ months ago, she dissected cow eyeballs in her class. While at first she couldn’t think of anything to say about her favorite thing, because she “thought the whole thing was kind of fun”, but eventually decided that she thought it was cool to learn about the different parts of the eyeball and see the differences between a cow eyeball and a human eyeball. She really didn’t like how obnoxious and loud her class was, though. She remembers it pretty well because, after all, it was only a month ago. She didn’t have a lab practical afterwards, and she gave me a funny face when I asked if she did. All in all, I’m glad I interviewed her instead of my parents, because my mom said she never dissected anything and my dad said he doesn’t remember it at all.
ReplyDeleteI interviewed my sister who dissected a frog 6 years ago as a freshman. She said that she liked how she was able to see the whole anatomy layed out right in front of her. She didn't like the smell of the frog and how it tasted. She did do a lab practical afterwards.
ReplyDeleteI interviewed my Mom. She dissected a frog in college, in 1985. She said this dissection was different from most because she had to mash the brain of the frog while it was alive, and the observe all its organs while they were still working. She said she hated it because she had to kill the frog, and the watch as it heart still beat in its body, but she did like the regular frog dissection in high school because she did not have to kill the frog. It was already dead and she just had to observe. She said she could not remember if they had a lab practical afterwards, but she is sure they had a test on the dissection.
ReplyDeleteI chose to interview my dad. He took his dissection 39 years on a frog. The best part of doing it was when it was over. The worst part was the initial incision on the frog, as well as smell of the formaldehyde. He remembers the worst parts of the dissection clear as day, but doesn't remember any other part of it, including if there was a practical.
ReplyDeleteI interviewed my dad and my mom. He dissected a frog his freshman year in high school. My mom on the other hand had not dissected anything in her life. Unlike my dad, who had high school in Chicago, my mom had it in Poland. I guess they don't dissect frogs in Poland but they get to see a dissection happen. At least that's what my mom said. It's interesting to see that the school system in Poland is different from here not only in their country history but also in other subjects such as Biology.
ReplyDeletei interviewed my mom about her dissection experience. She said she did not remember to much but she did remember one thing that happened that day. She dissected her frog her Junior year of high school in her biology class. She said that the thing she hated most was definitely the smell. Her most vivid memory of that day was when one of students in the back of there room got sick from looking at the frog and ended up throwing up on their lab partner.
ReplyDeleteI interviewed my pops. My pops was born and raised in France, and the labs were quite awhile considering he is 63.He remembers his labs very well and gave my very in detailed stories. My dad dissected a frog, a rat, an eel, and according to my dad “I dissected the Chickens, the Cows, the lamb, the rabbits and the Pigs on the farm when i killed them”. My dads favorite lab was the frog lab because when he did it the frogs were alive and the put chloroform on a cotton ball and put it on his face. They operated on the frog while it was sleeping and he said “After we took off the heart, it was still pumping. Also when we took of the heart, we would poke the frog and we could see the muscle contracting. It was kinda funny”. He told me his least favorite lab was the rats because “They didn’t do anything cool”.
ReplyDeleteFor this blog entry I interviewed my mom who dissected a pig 24 years ago. My mom dissected the pig in her Freshman biology class. My mom enjoyed learning the different parts of a pig and how to cut it. But, looking inside the pig’s stomach was a little too much. She vaguely remembers most of the dissection. Although, my Mom does remember having a lab practical.
ReplyDeleteI selected my father to interview regarding the dissection of a frog during his high school years. It has been over thirty years since the dissection, but he still remembered this event well. He found it very interesting how small the organs were and how easy it was to identify each vital organ. After he completed the dissection they took an electric stimulation rod and placed it on the muscle near the thigh, which resulted in the full leg kicking straight out. When this happened his lab partner thought the frog looked like a dancer so he began to sing show tunes in front of the class. He sang, "hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal". This caused the whole class to laugh. What he learned was even though the frog was dead, the muscles still reacted to electrical stimulus. My dad also had to do a lab practical like we will be doing after the dissection.
ReplyDeleteI interviewed my mom. When she was in high school (27 years ago), she dissected a frog as well. She said she loved the entire thing; in fact, it was one of the most influential things that caused her to become involved with animals as a career. The only thing that bothered her was the chemical odor, which was the worst part I experienced as well. She’s positive the reason she remembers it so vividly is because of the scent. Seeing the makeup of the frog and seeing how it compared to other animals was the most interesting thing for her. Luckily, she didn’t have a lab practical afterward. Apparently, she has never done one in her entire life.
ReplyDeleteI interviewed my mother Trish Rainey. The dissection was when she was in the 10th grade of high school around the 1970s. She was dissecting a frog, just as we were. She liked at the very least the frog was dead prior, sense she has a love for animals. But she hated the process of it all together, the horrible scent, the feel of the frogs skin, and it's organs. She does not remember it well, if she did a lab practical at all, what day it was, or much of it at all. just the details of how gross it was was left imprinted in her memory even to this very day.
ReplyDeleteI interviewed my mom to see what she had dissected. She said that she dissected a sheep's eyeball in 1984. Being able to see what was inside of the eyeball was her favorite part, and her least favorite part was having a lab partner that squished it and squirted eye juice on her. She only remembers bits and pieces of it, but she knows that she was required to do a lab practical afterwards.
ReplyDeleteI chose to interview my mom. She said that she also dissected a frog in freshman year but doesn't remember much about it besides the fact that the room smelled horrible for the rest of the week. She said she thinks that she had a lab practical but it wasn't as big as this one though.
ReplyDeleteFor my interview, I interviewed my mom. She remembered her dissection of a rat in high school being around 40 years ago. She liked pinning the flaps of the fur and skin to the board with drawing pins. Some things my mom did not like was the smell of the stuff to preserve the rat and the cutting up of the rat; she does not like slicing up living things. She still can remember most of the details up until this day as if it happened yesterday. After dissecting the rat, my mom did do a lap practical on what she had learned.
ReplyDeleteI interviewed my dad, who also dissected a frog, but his sophomore year! He doesn't remember everything about it except how awful the smell was. He really enjoyed looking at the fat bodies, and how they looked like fingers. For him this was 35 years ago, and the fact that he remembers these things shows ho cool of an experience this was!
ReplyDeleteTo prepare myself for my own experience of the frog dissection, I interviewed my mom about her dissection experiences during high school. When I told her that I was going to be dissecting a frog this week in biology, she just started laughing. She explained that she remembered her dissection of a frog vividly from high school. My mom and her lab partner, that was her good friend, basically destroyed their frog, since they wanted to look at everything inside its body. She said it was essentially a disaster, once they started cutting their frog open. My mom’s dissection of this frog took place, during her Freshman year of high school. Out of the whole experience, she enjoyed learning and exploring all the parts of the frog the most. On the other hand, what she did not like was the terrible smell the frogs came with. At the end of the lab, she did have a lab practical that the whole class did. Overall, the dissection of the frog allowed my mom to learn the parts of the frog and where they are located.
ReplyDeleteWhen my mom was in high school she remembers dissecting a crawfish, a frog, and a piglet. She was a freshman in highschool and all she can remember was the smell of the formaldehyde. She said she absolutely hated it! Overall she said she enjoyed the experiences, but she said she wouldn’t want to do it again. My mom said that they did not have a lab practical after any of the dissections.
ReplyDeleteI interviewed my dad. I knows he dissected something when he was in high school but can't recall what it was. He thought it was interesting to see all the hidden systems and how they work in the animal's body. He didn't like that he couldn't remember! It was almost 40 years ago. He said he probably did have some sort of practical afterward.
ReplyDeleteI interviewed my dad, and he said that he dissected an earthworm in seventh grade, a frog in eighth, and a fetal pig in his sophomore year. My dad's favorite one was the frog and his least favorite was the fetal pig, I don't blame him. He also said that he didn't remember it at all, just the fact that he dissected them.
ReplyDeleteI interviewed my dad this week. He also dissected frogs his freshman year. His experience was pretty similar to mine, but a few differences. He said their frogs were smaller and smelled kinda funny. He also said there were lots of girls screaming and throwing up when they had to do ours. Thank god that didn't happen for us. He said he couldn't totally remember but he thinks someone may have also passed out. That was one of his favorite labs he ever did. My dad also had to take the lab practical, and his only advice was to study hard and make sure you know all the frog parts well by function and looks.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Matt Stekbar, I think your brother is right, frogs and humans are very similar when their internal organs and purposes are compared.
ReplyDeleteI interviewed my dad, and he said that they too dissected frogs in freshman year. He didn't really care for the directing of the frogs nor liked it either. He can't recall what exactly happened but they did take some form of a lab practical.
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ReplyDeleteAfter reading about this weeks blog post assignment, I decided to interview my dad on his high school biology dissection memories and experience. As I was asking him the given questions, though unfortunately, he didn’t too much of the information. Although, one thing that I found very interesting was my dad, as well as my mom both got to dissect before high school, more specifically, about 7th grade. My dad said that when he was younger, in middle school, his class got to dissect worms. I compared this fact to when I was in 7th grade and my class got to dissect flowers, which was a strong point for me. He said he remembered the smell of the formaldehyde after I explained the awful smell in the classroom and throughout the school hallways. He said you can never forget the smell of formaldehyde, and I totally agree.
I interviewed my mom on her frog dissection in college. When she did it, the frog was still alive, and they had to put a needle into the base of its brain so it wouldn't feel anything. She really didn't like that, cause it was squirming around, and then it went completly limp, but you could still see it breathing and blinking. She did like looking at it tongue though, and she though that frogs have the weirdest tongues of all. She didn't have a lab practical afterwards, although they did have a quiz.
ReplyDeleteI interviewed my Dad about his frog dissection. He featured high school in 1995 and dissected a frog his sophomore year. He can remember it pretty well, especially the smell. He can also remember the girls not particularly liking the lab much. He didn't have a lab practical after.
ReplyDeleteI had interviewed my mom, she was a science teacher herself before switching to math so she not only did it when she was younger but also in her later years. I like how I can get two perspectives, one from what she had remembered when she was our age to just recently. She dissected her frog freshman year of high school, she told me that it was very bothersome especially the smell, but she didn't remember much else about it or the digestive system of a frog. But just recently helping her students dissect frogs she finally remembered most of what she had forgot.
ReplyDeleteI talked to my dad about his frog dissection. He said that he could not remember it that well. The one thing that he could remember was that it was very interesting to see what it was like inside a frog.
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I interviewed my dad for what he got to experience in his dissection, When he was in high school, and he took a biology class he said they did some pretty weird stuff in there like dissect different kinds of beetles and he said he liked dissecting frogs much better because they had more inside of them. He says he remembers that a lot of people in his class were very freaked out but he doesn't remember being weirded out by it. He did say that there was an awful smell and I told him how big the frogs were that we dissected and he said that the ones they studied were much smaller. He doesn't remember having a lab practical or a test about it but he said it was very fun and he liked hearing about it.
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