In science classrooms across the country, middle-schoolers will take part in an iconic activity this year: frog dissection. Dissecting A Frog: A Middle School Rite Of Passage For this series, we've ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A rite of passage for generations of often squeamish Hoosier students could be replaced by technology if state Rep. Ragen Hatcher, D-Gary, gets her way. Hatcher is sponsor of House Bill ...

Three high school students gather around a desk to dissect a human brain. They look at the inner layers and then start removing each piece, all without benefit of a knife. “Let’s try the whale,” says ...

V-Frog, the world’s first virtual-reality-based frog-dissection software designed for biology education—allowing not mere observation, but physically simulated dissection—has been developed and is ...

The frogs are made using synthetic tissue and mimic properties of a live frog. The smell of formaldehyde in classrooms may soon be a thing of the past as high schools begin to introduce synthetic ...

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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X East Rock seventh grader Jeryl searches for frog’s large intestines… Credit: Maya McFadden Photos ...

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 ...

When Lauren S. Skaskiw refused to dissect a fetal pig last year, she learned a lesson in biology—and civics. The junior at Woodstock Union High School in eastern Vermont managed to earn her class’s ...

Spring is a time of year when nature awakens from its winter sleep and many newborn animals look around for the first time at their new homes on this remarkable planet. It is also that time of year ...

In science classrooms across the country, middle-schoolers will take part in an iconic activity this year: frog dissection. For this series, we've been thinking a lot about the iconic tools that some ...