Dissection Time in Homeschool

Nathan and his friend Joshua Muzzi are taking Biology this year. His mom and I decided that we would attempt to dissect some animals together. We ordered a set of 9 animals and got together several Tuesday mornings to cut the poor things apart. I'm not sure how much we actually learned, but the boys had fun cutting!! We watched a video on youtube before dissecting so we had some clue what we were doing. It was interesting, gross, and a lot of fun. It's amazing at the detail in the animals--it's clear that God made each of these animals. Not random chance. Not evolution. How could a big bang put the crayfish's bladder in his head?? He swims backwards--I'll let you figure out why he wouldn't want it in the normal position!! Anyway, here a couple of pictures from our first class. I didn't take my camera for the other classes, so this is all I have. We finished up this past Tuesday with a fetal pig. That was really interesting--the organs were big enough to see and appreciate.

First of all...the class!! 15 students in 2 families :)
Sorry, girls, you're outnumbered.
I'm assuming that you can tell the Weadocks from the Muzzis.
They have 6 boys, 1 girl--all just about the same ages
as ours.

Our first class was the dissection of a frog.

Daniel helped cut a little bit!

Nathan found a beetle in the stomach--actually,
there were 2!

Pretty cool, I must say. Tom doesn't even like to hear the word 'dissection' so we don't talk about it too much at home--unless we're trying to bug him :) It was a lot of fun. The other kids had fun playing together while Nathan, Joshua, and Rebekah did the dissecting. They would occasionally pop in and see what was happening. Just wait until next year when Daniel takes Biology!!