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Exploring Perspectives on Classroom Dissection: Insights from CASE, PETA, and Beyond

Exploring Perspectives on Classroom Dissection: Insights from CASE, PETA, and Beyond

A few years back the California Science Teachers Association (CSTA then CASE now) and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) found themselves on opposite sides of a dissection debate in Sacramento. PETA was supporting a bill to ban…
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Why Animal-Free Anatomy Lessons are the Future of Education

Why Animal-Free Anatomy Lessons are the Future of Education

Science is always evolving, so why are some of the methods we use to teach it—like dissecting dead animals—stuck in the past? We can better prepare students for the future by leaving behind old ways in favor of innovative and exciting new approaches…
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Evaluating Alternatives to Dissection with the SynFrog

Evaluating Alternatives to Dissection with the SynFrog

At the 2023 California Science Education Conference in Palm Springs, the Keynote Speaker was the inspiring Dr. Tyrone Hayes, who introduced himself as “a boy who loved frogs.” I asked him after the keynote, how he felt about frog dissection, and he…
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