A number of states now have legal proceedings or statewide policies requiring that alternatives to the actual dissection of laboratory animal specimens be permitted in their school districts. Objections by students, based on religious or ethical grounds, have been raised regarding the dissections of animals in classroom laboratories. conventional laboratory dissection: A comparison of student achievement and teacher perceptions among honors, general ability, and foundations-level high school biology classesĭissecting animal specimens has long been a tradition in biology classes. Virtual dissections were done with V- Frog, aâ€¦ Subjects were secondary students enrolled in year-long life science classes in a suburban high school (N=102). The purpose of the present study was to examine and compare the effectiveness of virtual frog dissection using V- Frog and physical frog dissection on learning, retention, and affect. Battaglia, Barbara Brophy, Keith Chugh, Kevin

Honors for the Virtual Frog Dissection Kit Study Web The dissection kit received a StudyWeb award Frog Project | Virtual Frog Page last modified: 01/23/05 Contacts: Bill Johnston, David RobertsonĪ Comparison of V- Frog to Physical Frog DissectionĮRIC Educational Resources Information Center Honors for the Virtual Frog Dissection Kit You can interactively dissect a (digitized) frog named Fluffy, and play the Virtual Frog animals other than the frog that have a computer-graphics based virtual dissection page. Virtual Frog Dissection Kit This award-winning interactive program is part of the 'Whole Frog ' project.

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