Orangevale Seventh-day Adventist School

5810 Pecan Ave
Orangevale, CA, 95662-4623
916-988-4310 916-988-8026 FAX


Home > Classrooms > Welcome to Junior High - Additional Activity Links Below >
Email | Print | 
.
Frog Dissection, February, 2008
.
Is that the kidney?

Every other year, the junior high students participate with a one-week frog dissection for science.  With many organs of a frog similar in function and shape to that of humans, it was quite interesting for the students to probe, discover, and understand the function of many.  Specific items of discovery included:  Renal vein, liver (three lobes), fat bodies, gall bladder, heart, ovaries, intestines, tympanum, etc.  A practicum test was given on the last day of the study week, with most students scoring VERY well.  When things are interesting, students do better.

Lab partners learning.  It's not so yucky as we thought!Mr. Davis points out the stomach.  It isn't sock like we thought!

                    One frog for every two students.  Yes, they were euthenized prior to arriving at our school.