NTR: Do you remember when you started disecting in science?

RobynandJason05/06

Reason why.. my son is in 5th grade they actually started in 3rd.  hes in private school dont know if its a private thing but this week its frogs.  He comes home and says the sciene teacher said that some students have gotten stress and depression from disecting.  I started laughing but thinking wow kinda young.  Fetal pigs are next.

I remember doing this in high school.  They dont have to do the disection if they dont want to.  but i thought this was kinda young.

Jessibell

I think I was in HS.

I would have had a fit if I was asked to do it in 3rd grade. That is way too young IMHO.

ajanes

It's a little young.  I did a worm & frog in junior high.  We did a fetal pig in 10th grade biology, and a cat in A&P in 12th.

philosoraptor

It was 7th grade. I had earth science in 6th and chemistry in 8th, so biology would've been 7th. But I went to a math/science magnet school. I know DH did not dissect until high school.

A fetal pig? Really?! Our grand finale was a frog and I thought that was bad enough! 3rd grade is much too young, IMO. Even if it's only because they shouldn't be handling those sharp instruments at 8/9 yo. O_O

libby73

Highschool rings a bell to me.  I didn't do it

meggiekins

6th grade, we dissected an owl pellet for practice. In 7th grade we started real dissecting. It was awesome. Lol.

rlthomas7

Seventh grade. Worm, frog and crayfish.

I didn't do a fetal pig until college, in zoology class as part of my biology major. Doing a fetal pig in elementary school seems kind of like a waste to me, if that makes sense. I think it shows some disrespect to the animal to have elementary kids ripping it apart.

LaLaSweets

I started in junior high. 7th grade with worms and frogs. I'm a junior high science teacher and these kids can't handle working with sharp tools so we do virtual dissection s haha

saraheg77

We did a sheep's eye in 7th grade... and an earthworm, I think... luckily my BFF was my lab partner and was totally into it, so I didn't have to do a thing.  lol

mabst196

I think 9th grade?

RobynandJason05/06

Yeah they already did octopus.  I was thinking this is gross hell the kid just turned 11.  He wont do it.  But i thought man this is really young

MrsSoapbox

Frogs in 7th grade

AmyDrinkie

We did worms and frogs in 7th grade; those are the first things I remember.  Then I think we did the same ones again in 8th, plus a calf's heart, sheep's brain and cow's eyeball.  Then in high school I remember doing all these again plus fetal pigs and a cat.

RobynandJason05/06

they start the cats in HS i couldnt imagine.  We never got passed the pig in high school.  I guess times have changed.

flgator

frogs in high school, but I didn't do it.

JessMil10

I was in 7th or 8th grade.  I remember doing a frog, a worm, and owl pellets.

inbetweendreams

I did a few little things in 8th grade. The rest (frog, fetal pig, etc.) was in high school.

alheystek

we dissected worms in 6th grade, then pigs in 10th grade. I hated it both times.

Lucky_Dragonfly

i never did. my bio teacher in 10th grade didn't believe in it so we didn;t do it.

lmdbww

Junior High, possibly 7th or 8th grade? But we only did worms and insects.

I didn't dissect a fetal pig until college!!! That seems like alot for a 5th grader!

LaLaSweets

I had to do the pig in college

Punk*Mommy

We dissected fetal pigs in 6th grade. And I dissected a cat in 11th grade for my Anatomy class.

Geekchick921

I think our TEACHER did a heart when I was in 7th grade.  Sophomore year high school we did bio and did a number of dissections (I remember worm, starfish, perch, frog, and a cow eye).  We didn't do a fetal pig til I did general bio in college!

Susan_KW

Sheep's eye dissected by the teacher in 5th grade

Frogs and earthworms dissected in class by students in 6th grade.

Didn't do any other dissecting after that.

destea1

I think my 7th or 8th grade science teacher had us do frogs, after that it wasn't until Freshman year - squid / cows eye and I can't really remember what else...

IckyThump

We dissected a grasshopper in 7th grade and did earthworms and a frog in 10th grade. The AP bio classes did a fetal pig and a cat - luckily I was not in AP bio.

akiernan

7th grade: nurse shark

8th grade: frog and worm

11th grade: cat. 

Yes, you read that correctly.  And of course, I had to get the dead cat that looked exactly like my own cat at home.  I sobbed the entire time.

avz2azb

7th grade: worms, crawfish, and frogs

10th grade: fetal pig

I teach 8th grade science. We do chicken wings and sheep hearts.