Dissection in biology provides a hands-on education above and beyond reading a textbook. By seeing, touching and exploring different organs, muscles and tissues inside an animal and seeing how they work together allows you to really understand your own body and appreciate the amazing world around us. And it's not hard - you can dissect a clam right at home using this inexpensive clam specimen with a dissection guide and simple dissection tools! Many doctors, surgeons and veterinarians report that their first fascination with the body started with a biology dissection class.
Materials:
- Fresh clam (in shell)
- Dissection tools
- Clam diagrams
Like the video!!!! so interesting!!!
Happy news! We are remaking all of our dissection videos now, and we’ve got two just released with another 11 on the way! Thank you for being so patient with the old videos while we worked on this project. I hope you enjoy the new video – please let me know what you think!
Thanks Julia – and you’re right! These videos are used with permission from the author, but they are not a good quality or thorough in the sense of providing a lesson. We are working on shooting a new set of videos that will cover all of these things and make it clear and easy to do dissections, after we’ve completed our current set of projects.
Yvonne I found this link. http://www.biologyjunction.com/clam_dissection.htm that was helpful.
The starfish from home science tools came with the guide, but the mussel did not. Not sure why. These dissection labs are enough to get you started, but definitely not complete lessons. Diagrams would be helpful. The quality of this video is very poor, and difficult to locate organs on our mussels based on the video.
Ok, I just realized that I should have bought the guide books for the dissections. We are planning on doing the worm, clam and starfish dissections this week. Is there any way I can find a guide other than ordering one?
thats so cool iv always wanted to know what a clam looks like inside
Sophia