Digital Frog Program: Digital Frog Dissection Software

Despite the lack of snow that day, I hoped against hope and I listened to the radio in the hopes of a school cancellation or delay. I felt icky all during lunch and picked at my food. I was jittery all day. The smell of the formaldehyde made my heart race. It was frog dissection lab day.

Do you remember the day of frog dissection in biology class? Whether you were queasy, excited, or refused, it was memorable. But for some, frog dissections are more than an unpleasant lab experience - for some there are religious or conscientious objections.

For disabled or home schooled students dissections may not be possible. A new line of virtual educational software can be used as an alternative to the traditional dissection classes. If your child has an attention disorder, a lab class is especially difficult and this software may be a real aid to this education requirement.

A new software program called Digital Frog Program has been designed as an alternative to the traditional biology class dissections. This software option is one of the technological alternatives that can be favored by the disabled, the homeschooled, the queasy, and those conscientious objector students who refuse to harm an animal or participate in killing an animal for their benefit, even educational.

A handful of states upload the right for a student to object to dissections. If your state does not uphold this right, consider proposing the use of this software in lieu of a lengthy legal process.

These software packages use high powered zoom, digital blades, and video. A software package called frogouts says a student can make incision line with their mouse. Digital Frog also includes anatomy quizzes, and allows students to repeatedly review their dissection work - going layer by layer. A video, textual information and the frog being dissected can be shown together to re-enforce the lesion. This is especially helpful to learning disabled students who would need more time than just the allotted lab session time to complete their work.

Students with attention deficit disorder, ADHD, and other learning disabilities are often at a disadvantage at lab work based on lessons, since often they cannot take notes during the lab and since written lab procedures are generally not available in advance for the student to review, students are at a disadvantage for lab work. The use of such software would allow a learning disabled student to review their work.

This is especially necessary when testing or lab reports are performed at a later date based on the lab work performed. This makes this software a very helpful aid in lieu of in addition to the traditional lab dissection and is a serious consideration for the attention deficit student.