Dissection: Think of the Frogs

Dissection: Think of the Frogs
“Every year, 5.7 million animals are used in secondary and college science classes” (Dissection, par1). This is very sad to consider when one takes into account the growing number of computer dissection simulations currently available to schools. These can teach the same things as physical dissections, but without the loss of life. A consideration that should be made when planning the coursework for classes that include animal dissection would be, “although dissection is often seen as a useful skill in itself this must be justified in terms of learning objectives and outcomes” (Predavec, par33). When a person realizes that most dissections are performed only to teach basic physiology and anatomy to students who are not going into a field where they will be needed, and that most all students will forget practically everything of the dissection soon after it occurs, remembering mostly just the unpleasantness, this computer-based alternative s...