Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Where's Bessie?


It's a bucket of cow eyes. Yes, just the eyes. 5th graders at my school learn about the sensory system and cow eye dissection is the frosting on the cake. The kids don white lab coats, plastic gloves and protective goggles and arm themselves with tweezers and scissors. They "ooh" and "ugh" for about five minutes and then get busy finding corneas and retinas. We've never had an actual barfer, but it is always amusing to watch the burliest boys turn pale and the frilliest girls dig right in.

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