Green Bean Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 DD and I both have very weak stomachs. Dissections- even pictures- are not going to go over well. What are our options? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSera Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 There are tons of biology lab options that have nothing to do with dissection. I don’t think you will find this a problem. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Bean Posted July 25, 2023 Author Share Posted July 25, 2023 yeah! I was concerned cutting things up was a credit requirement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brittany1116 Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 Look up paper dissection kits. I have seen them on Etsy and/or TPT. You can cut, color, and assemble layers of things frequently dissected. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoo Keeper Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 Dissections of flowers and other plants are also an option. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El... Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 One of our most interesting slide projects was onion! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 12 hours ago, Green Bean said: DD and I both have very weak stomachs. Dissections- even pictures- are not going to go over well. What are our options? There is literally no reason to do dissections in a modern biology course. Focus on what's important--biochemistry and molecular biology, cell biology, genetics, evolution, and populations and ecology. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2scouts Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 My DD was not willing to do dissections of animals. We did flower and mushroom dissections and for animals we used paper dissections from gettingnerdywithmelandgerdy.com. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clemsondana Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 The AP scope and sequence, which is mostly the same content that is usually taught in high school, doesn't have any dissections or content that would align with dissections. The content is mostly molecular biology, genetics, and ecology. There are labs and hands-on activities that can be done with this content. Testing food for various macromolecules and an osmosis lab are common, as is microscope work. Ecology is a good place for students to design their own lab - anything with growing plants or varying something and then observing birds or squirrels or something can work. Students often struggle to design an experiment since they are used to following directions for labs, but it's a useful exercise. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Bean Posted July 26, 2023 Author Share Posted July 26, 2023 Thank you, everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted July 26, 2023 Share Posted July 26, 2023 My kids did human genetics as their biological science as dual enrollment in community college. No labs and the subject is closer to home with things like asthma, having unruly wavy hair, being left hander having a genetic component. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellifera33 Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 Last year I led biology labs at my co-op. We only did two dissections, and kids could opt out or construct a paper dissection model. This book is an excellent resource for lab ideas, and we used it for more than half of our labs. Our schedule: 1. Lab safety, measurement, using a microscope 2. Detecting carbohydrates and fats in foods 3. Detecting proteins in foods 4. pH-serial dilutions, effects of buffers, finding pH of household items 5. Mounting specimens for observation under a microscope 6. Staining specimens--simple stains and gram staining 7. Plant pigment chromatography using prepared extractions from summer and autumn leaves 8. Cell cycle, observing onion root cells in various stages of mitosis 9. Extracting DNA from strawberries 10. Building a monster using coin-flips to select alleles for each trait, and determining phenotype based on dominance. 11. Forensics activity--matching DNA to determine the criminal 12. Classification, using dichotomous keys to identify insects 13. Observing and identifying protists 14. Dissecting flowers 15. Constructing an insect dissection model 16. Constructing a frog dissection model (optional: dissecting a grasshopper and a frog) 17. Succession activity, looking at a local example of succession after a natural disaster 18. Outdoor activity: looking at plant diversity in the small city lot next to the co-op site. Some planned labs were unable to be completed due to snow days and illness, and some were changed due to time constraints. We didn't look at fungi, complete an activity on competition and natural selection, or go deeper into ecology. Such is life. 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Dove Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 I’m not saying you have to do dissections, but if you choose to, I thought this fake frog kit was a pretty good idea: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GW9QCSP/?coliid=I1U7ZU4PJLYE9T&colid=IOJ3KB96AJ7U&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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