Description
This fun and engaging pickle dissection lab activity is the perfect addition to your Intro to Anatomy unit! Using specimens like pickles or bananas, students learn about dissection techniques, body planes, and anatomical terminology. This is a favorite lab in any high school Biology or Anatomy classroom!
Teacher instructions and student pages are provided.
PLEASE NOTE: This resource is part of my Intro to Anatomy & Physiology Unit and my Full Anatomy & Physiology Curriculum.
Students will practice using:
- body cavities & body planes
- anatomical terminology and directional terms
- the types of dissection tools and their uses
- types of incisions
- how to make detailed drawings during a dissection
*If your students have not yet learned anatomical terminology, directional terms, and body cavities/planes, please use my Intro to Anatomy & Physiology Unit to teach these prior to using this lab.
Included in this resource:
- 1 teacher instruction page
- 3 student pages with detailed instructions, questions, and spaces for drawings
- Answer key
- Digital pages for 1:1 classrooms or students working at home
This activity addresses NGSS HS-LS1-2.
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Andrea L. –
So much fun!
We did this during our last week of the semester and the students loved it! We had tons of fun!
Danielle C. –
My Zoology students loved this activity! I had fun setting up with the different ways a pickle can RIP. I used this to introduce dissection tools and skills.