Yesterday Emily walked into my 3rd period class and said, “What are you doing right now?”
“Uh, not teaching a lesson?” (my student couldn’t come that period).
“What do you want to be doing?”
“Uh, hanging out with you?”
“How about doing a dissection!”
“Ok!”
Never before would I ever have agreed so readily to slice up a dead animal, but something about the past few years of cooking whole chickens and various cuts of meat has desensitized me to the grossness of dead animals. We went over to the science office; Emily pulled out a packaged pig heart, and we went to work!
Emily got lots of joy out of identifying the pulmonary artery, the aorta, and various other parts of the heart. I kind of enjoyed sticking my fingers (rubber glove-encased, of course) in the large arteries and veins. It was definitely a different use of half an unexpected free period than I’ve ever had before!
Cool! I never got to dissect a pig heart – just smaller stuff. It looks like it would be really fun.