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What are the alternatives?
There are also a number of alternatives available for free online:

Net Frog allows students to participate in an interactive dissection, complete with images, movies, and text.

Explore interactive pictures, watch videos, view diagrams, and quiz yourself with Anatomically Correct: The Online Cat Dissection.

Wellesley College offers online videos of a crayfish, frog, and sheep brain dissection.

With the Virtual Frog Dissection Kit, you can both dissect a frog, and use the Virtual Frog Builder game to put one back together. The interactive pages are available in seven different languages.

Exploratorium’s online Cow Eye Dissection has videos, graphics, and information about the eye.

Froguts offers a free online demo of their virtual frog dissection.

Access dissection videos, photos, slideshows, worksheets, and quizzes from ZeroBio. Videos include the fetal pig, frog, and sheep heart.

Cornell has information and detailed images about the morphology and physiology of frogs; it also includes links to videos and quizzes.

View photos of the external features and internal organs and systems with the Frog Dissection Lab.

The State University of New York at Buffalo offers in-depth information and graphics about a wide variety of species.

View images from the muscular and digestive systems of the rat.

Perform a virtual mouse dissection step-by-step with the Virtual Mouse Necropsy.

The Sheep Brain Dissection Guide

Virtual Cat Dissection

Virtual Pig Dissection

Earthworm Dissection

 

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Fact Sheet
PCRM's Dissection Alternatives fact sheet (pdf) offers common, readily-available humane alternatives to animals frequently used in classroom dissection.

Freebie
New! A free download of the InterNICHE book, From Guinea Pig to Computer Mouse: Alternative Methods for Humane Education (2nd ed.), is now available at www.interniche.org.