Homeschooling parents find creative ways to fulfill dissection requirements for biology classes, including ordering supplies online and conducting small group lessons.

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 ...

If you were one of those folks who didn’t really like to cut into frogs in biology class, you can easily relate with this software: V-Frog, virtual-reality-based frog dissection software. V-Frog ...

V-Frog, now available in institutional and home editions, is presented as a way for students to dissect a virtual frog in a way that affords all the understanding that would be gained from taking ...

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 ...

Next week, when her classmates set out to dissect a frog or a rat in science class, ninth-grader Tracy Logan will be somewhere else working on a report far from the scent of formaldehyde. The ...

HONING SKILLS: Trinity biologist Robert Blystone says dissection provides the opportunity for students to develop scientific observational skills. Poring over a frog's insides once was nearly ...

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 ...

Being a vegetarian (or pescetarian, if you will), I tried my hardest to get out of dissecting frogs during biology classes. Had I been born 10 years later, I could’ve cut up virtual amphibians on an ...