"I feel that dissection is the best way for students to see the progression from simple to more complex in the animal kingdom. The reason I no longer dissect is because I felt the students were getting less and less out of it. They would spend 15 to…"
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I am wondering how many schools still have their students dissect frogs or worms in middle school. Is this an "old school" thing, does it not match the standards, etc? We are looking at it leaving…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Eileen Bendixsen Feb 7, 2011.
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Angela Crawford replied to Amanda Grear's discussion Dissection in Middle School"I do a fish dissection with 6th graders. They love it, I love it. It's marginally related to the content in our life science curriculum (under organs and tissues have a specific structure and function), but I primarily use the…"
Holly replied to Amanda Grear's discussion Dissection in Middle School"This is my 10th year teaching life science and I definitely continue with the dissections. We dissect earthworms, frogs, sheep or cow eyes, and I ask for parents to donate moose hearts during the fall in hunting season. We also have a place a meat…"
Carl Wilms replied to Amanda Grear's discussion Dissection in Middle School"The high school that my students feed into have asked that we do not conduct dissections as they see that as an integral part of their curriculum. That request, connected to the variability of middle school students' maturity to utilize…"
"We haven't been doing whole animal dissections the last few years. Partially because of the money and also because it doesn't fit as well in our newer state standards. We only study a few body systems now, so our dissections…"
Kim Lightle replied to Amanda Grear's discussion Dissection in Middle School"Hi Amanda - I haven't been in a classroom for quite a few years but I do believe that I would do less dissections than I used to. I'm just not sure that students get out of them what we hope they will although I sure agree with Tom about…"
Tom Jenkins replied to Amanda Grear's discussion Dissection in Middle School"We still do frogs and worms in our middle school. That being said- it does comsume a large portion of the budget.
I like it because even with the wonderful simulations that are available dissection is a gross, smelly, and almost always a memorable…"
Amanda Grear replied to Vivian Barker's discussion Centers"Hello,
I have discovered that the students have done better when the centers came to them. Sometimes this wasn't possible, but when it was it worked great. I had 2 or 3 sets of the materials for the centers and gave the students a time frame…"
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I am wondering how many schools still have their students dissect frogs or worms in middle school. Is this an "old school" thing, does it not match the standards, etc? We are looking at it leaving due to not having the $$$ to buy new specimens. Any thoughts? Should it still be taught in middle school?
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- At 8:12am on September 3, 2010,
Mary Henton said… - Hello, Amanda,
Glad to have another Ohioan here on MSP2. We're about 180-strong!
Since Kim has given you the tour, I'll simply say "welcome" and echo her encouragement to you to jump in and participate. A couple of places that you might consider starting out, given what you've indicated you "can help with" are--
- a conversation about Tips for New Teachers
- a discussion about science fiction literature to inspire students
- a discussion about tech tools and student achievement
Please share your experience and knowledge!
M
- At 4:30pm on September 1, 2010, Kim Lightle said…
- Hi Amanda - Welcome aboard! I wanted to tell you a little about MSP2 - we are using this NING network as a place where educators can connect with each other (through answers to profile questions and the advanced Members search) and also as a way to connect educators with exemplary resources and professional development opportunities.
If you look on the Main page - you'll see MSP2 resources in the upper left hand box - we have resource guides where we have sifted and sorted and contextualized resources on topics important to middle school math and science teachers, an archive of all of our past webinars, the ability to search the MSP2 collection, and pages of teacher and student opportunities and grants. Our newest resource guide is about Teaching With Trade Books and includes lessons for science AND math classes.
I saw that you would like help with instructional strategies - we've had a few webinars that might be of interest to you. You can download the recording from our archive page - http://wiki.nsdl.org/index.php/MiddleSchoolPortal/Webinar_Archive.
We have on the right side of the page our two project blogs - Resources for Math and Science and Connecting News. We also RSS feed the Free Technology for Teachers, Teach Engineering, and Science and Technology NYT blog feeds.
Please don't hesitate to post a question or comment. We are always looking for feedback and new ideas for PD opportunities and people who would like to present. Don't know if you thought about going to the National Middle School Association annual meeting, but we are also giving away free registrations to the meeting in Baltimore November 4-6. Click here for more information.
So glad you joined - Kim
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