Finally -- Done with the Pig Dissection!

This week, we finished our pig dissections.  Some of the students were interested doing the final step of sewing up the Y incisions we made, like what is done for autopsies.  The organs that have been removed and examined are placed back in the body, arranged to restore the natural shape of the body.  We did this with our pigs and used suture to sew them up.

Before that, we had our quizshow about the kidneys, and the students who didn't want to sew up the pigs watched a series of educational videos related to anatomy (from a YouTube playlist I made).  At the end of the playlist were some Schoolhouse Rock videos, which I remember from my childhood.  I decided to play two additional YouTube videos that illustrate the organism classification system.

This one is from 1989, and is the first video putting the system to a rap beat.  Just to remind you, here are the groupings, from most general to most specific:
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species

Most organisms that you can find on Wikipedia have their groupings listed with their entry.
Here's the second classification rap video we watched:

We have common names for organisms, such as fruit fly, and we have their scientific name, which is their Genus (capitalized) and species (lowercase).  Fruit flies' scientific name is Drosophila melanogaster.

Next week, we will be making slides of our tissues and staining them to look at under the microscope.