Using Surface Tablets, Coach Collins and his students with the help of Ms Cameron walked through the dissection process digitally so that students already had an idea of the process and what to expect later in the week. One special component we added this year was a virtual frog dissection. It was a great opportunity and a memorable week for our 7th graders in science class! Dissection is certainly gross to some of our students, but once they got into it, many students were fascinated by the process. Students then cut into the abdomen, peeling back layers of skin, then muscle, to examine the organs. Students began class by examining their specimen and making observations. The dissections that we do brings all of this together and they get a hands on look at how all of the systems we have studied work together.” “We start with the cell, which is the smallest unit of life, and take it all the way to an organism. “Dissection is the culminating event of the year that brings together all that we have studied,” says David Collins, 7th grade science teacher. These two labs are a capstone to what students have been learning in class all year. Dissections in VR are a safe alternativeAs teachers and parents know, dissections can present a risk to student safety due to: risk of being cut by a scalpel, risk of infection, and exposure to formaldehyde - which can damage the eyes, cause asthma attacks, and bronchitis.Our 7th grade students dissected worms and frogs in science class this week. Furthermore, these dissections can only take place once a year and cannot be “redone” if a student makes a mistake.
Over a 5 year period, a single classroom will spend over $4000 just to dissect frogs. Schools can save on the expensive annual costs of animal acquisition without causing harm to a single creature by using dissections in virtual reality. Lifelike physical models mean that the frog appears as it would in a real dissection allowing science teachers to feel good about substituting virtual reality for the real thing. The dissection experience is recreated to the finest detail so that they are a suitable substitute for the real thing in a classroom.
An Authentic Science Experience Aligned to National Learning StandardsAll of the instruction follows the Next Generations Science Standards (NGSS), the national science standards for the United States. Along the way, a hologram of our teacher - national runner-up Teacher of the Year, Wendy Martin - will pop up to provide instruction and information to users. This true to life experience covers each step that a student would take if they were dissecting a real frog in their classroom.
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Learning can take place anytime, anywhereVictoryVR’s virtual reality frog dissection software is a hands-on dissection opportunity that users can experience through the power of virtual reality. VictoryVR’s virtual reality frog dissection software is a hands-on dissection opportunity that users can experience through the power of virtual reality. Learn the fundamentals of the female frog anatomy in a fully immersive virtual reality experience. Join Wendy Martin, a national award-winning science teacher, to make Ribbit-ing Discoveries in this virtual reality Frog Dissection.
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