Animal Dissection Essay

Have you ever dissected a frog, or another kind of animal? What about an owl pellet? Dissections have helped millions of people in many ways. Instead of taking it away, we should let all children experience the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity called the classroom dissection. Dissections should be kept available for all students in any science class. It helps with a student’s future career choices, a student’s understanding of anatomy, and it’s better than a virtual dissection.

If a student practices dissections at an earlier age, it can help them with their careers later on in life. First, it can help them decide what they may want to do. An article from Mental Floss states, “There are many surgeons who say that they first discovered their

The resemblance between human and animal body parts also come into play in another aspect. Something called xenotransplantation. Medscape describes it as “...the transplantation of nonhuman tissue or organs into human recipients.” If surgeons start using more xenotransplantation, then we have more of a reason to learn animal anatomy. Xenotransplantation can save so many lives, and if we don’t have an understanding of the anatomy of the animal the surgeon is using, the survival rate of the surgery won’t be as high. Students need to understand these things and experience it first hand to develop a good understanding of what they could be placing in a human soon, or what they could be

However, this is untrue. According to many experts, it’s actually the opposite. Virtual dissections are worse and damage a student’s education rather than a real one. One biology teacher uses a specific example. “It’s all very well telling kids that bivalves have gills that serve as the same function as a fish’s gills until they’ve seen, touched, felt, accessed those gills themselves. No one wants to hear me lecture. Not when the alternative is experience” (Linton, 3). Kids won’t learn as well as they would if they had a hands on experience. It’s the same as cooking. Do kids get to become great chefs by watching food network or playing Overcooked (A popular video game where you mix “ingredients” on your phone and see what dishes you can make)? No, they get to be great by practicing with a real oven, real pots and pans, and, of course, real food. In order to give our children the best education available, we should let them practice with the real things. It’s better than any video game can come close