East Rock seventh grader Jeryl searches for frog’s large intestines… Credit: Maya McFadden Photos …while others check out the frog’s tongue and teeth. East Rock School seventh graders Leia and Lesly ...

Fifth graders at Jackson Academy recently got a hands-on look at anatomy and biology through a classic science rite of passage: the frog dissection. Working carefully through each step, students ...

(NEW YORK) — The smell of formaldehyde in classrooms may soon be a thing of the past as high schools begin to introduce synthetic animals for biology students to dissect, instead of the real thing.

Dear EarthTalk: Are the animals used in classroom dissection taken from the wild? If so, wouldn't this be endangering their populations? Are there other environmental issues associated with classroom ...

Live frogs, snakes and a gelatin frog for dissection are among the things children saw this week as they experienced the life of a herpetologist at the Cook Museum of Natural Science’s sold-out Jr.

I recently read an essay called "Marin teen honored for alternatives to real-frog dissection" about Indigo Prasad, a seventh-grader at Mark Day School in San Rafael, California. I was thrilled to see ...

All of the education from a dissection, minus the slicing, goopiness, and grossness? Biology teachers may disagree, but I certainly would have preferred examining this plastic sucker over the real ...