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So we had no problem deciding on what KM will be using for her core text for Biology next year - Biology Demystified
- she is very excited in trying this series out so that she can direct her learning fully on her own with these self-teaching guides. However we are working out the logistics of it being considered "high school" level if we leave out dissection labs. KM wants nothing to do with dissections, either in real life or virtual dissections with computer animated animals. She doesn't want to watch videos on it or anything. I completely understand and respect her position on it, so we are looking into other ways to get the concepts and ideas that dissections are suppose to be getting across.
So we had no problem deciding on what KM will be using for her core text for Biology next year - Biology Demystified
- she is very excited in trying this series out so that she can direct her learning fully on her own with these self-teaching guides. However we are working out the logistics of it being considered "high school" level if we leave out dissection labs. KM wants nothing to do with dissections, either in real life or virtual dissections with computer animated animals. She doesn't want to watch videos on it or anything. I completely understand and respect her position on it, so we are looking into other ways to get the concepts and ideas that dissections are suppose to be getting across. Here is a rather interesting essay/article that we read on the whys of dissection.
I am trying to compile a list of alternative resources and some that I found so far are -
If you have any to add please feel free to add them to the list or email!
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We dissected a frog in middle school, a fetal pig in sophomore year, and a cat in AP Bio. It was AMAZING. It almost made me want to be a surgeon. The thing I remember best still today is how the muscles all attached. It seems like that aspect of it might be less painful to simulate and less "ooky" and maybe enjoying learning the muscles could lead to more interest about internal organs and whatnot.
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