Frog Disection

Last week we performed a dissection on a frog. We had to open it up with directions from the lab packet and look for specific organs such as the heart, the livers and the gall bladder. Others included the fat bodies, the cloaca, the small intestine, the large intestine as well as the stomach. Some frogs were females, some were males and we had to differentiate between the two. My group's frog was female and we could tell because there was a large amounts of eggs. To get around those we just had to scoop them out. Many people found this dissection to be disgusting, but i enjoyed it. It was a good hands-on way to learn about the parts of the frog without having a test. It is also a lot less boring then just filling out worksheets. I would rather have a dissection then have a test or do worksheets any day.