Virtual Reality Animal Dissections
6 Unique, Mess-Free Animal Dissections
Wendy Martin, a national award-winning science teacher, hosts six unique VR animal dissections for K-12 learners.
Enhance Your VR K-12 Curriculum
What are the New Science Standards?
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are a new set of K–12 science standards that were developed by states, for states. The NGSS identify scientific and engineering practices, crosscutting concepts, and core ideas in science that all K–12 students should master in order to prepare for success in college and 21st-century careers.
(From the official NGSS website)


Dogfish Dissection
INTRODUCTION: Running Time: 9 minutes
- Wendy’s welcome
- Controls/Functionality
EXTERNAL FEATURES: Running Time: 20 minutes
INTERNAL SYSTEMS: Running Time: 41 minutes
- Digestive: 18 minutes
- Respiratory: 10 minutes
- Urogenital: 7 minutes
- Nervous: 6 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 70 minutes

Feline Dissection
INTRODUCTION: Running Time: 7 minutes
- Wendy’s welcome
- Controls/Functionality
EXTERNAL FEATURES: Running Time: 10 minutes
SYSTEMS: Running Time: 78 minutes
- Skeletal: 9 minutes
- Muscular: 7 minutes
- Digestive: 17 minutes
- Urogenital: 12 minutes
- Circulatory: 14 minutes
- Respiratory: 9 minutes
- CNS: 10 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 95 minutes

Frog Dissection
INTRODUCTION: Running Time: 7 minutes
- Wendy’s welcome
- Controls/Functionality
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 25 minutes

Mammalian Organ Pack Dissection
In addition to the actual dissection of each organ, there are interactive activities and formative assessments sprinkled throughout the program, for each organ, to help review and solidify student learning. Each organ dissection is a stand-alone experience and can be performed in any order. Time estimates and the highlights for each section are provided below.
INTRODUCTION RUNNING TIME: 9 minutes
- Wendy’s welcome
- Controls/Functionality
HUMAN HEART: Running Time: 25 minutes
- External Features (left/right atria, left/right ventricles, interventricular sulcus, aorta, pulmonary trunk, superior/inferior vena cava)
- Internal Aspects (interventricular septum, tricuspid valve, chordae tendineae, pulmonary valve, mitral valve, trabeculae carneae, aortic valve)
COW EYE: Running Time: 25 minutes
- External Features (occipital lobe, optic nerve, sclera, cornea)
- Internal Aspects (vitreous humor, retina, choroid, lens, pupil)
PIG KIDNEY: Running Time: 25 minutes
- External Features (renal capsule, renal fascia, adipose capsule, hilus, renal artery, renal vein)
- Internal Aspects (cortex, medulla, nephrons, renal tubule, renal pyramids, renal papillae, renal column, renal lobe, minor calyx, major calyx, renal pelvis, ureter, bladder)
SHEEP BRAIN: Running Time: 40 minutes
- External Features (meninges, cerebrum, median longitudinal fissures, gyri, sulci, 4 lobes, rhinal sulcus, cerebellum, vermis, pituitary gland, cranial nerves, optic nerve, oculomotor nerve, trochlear nerve, trigeminal nerve, abducens nerve, facial nerve, auditory nerve, glossopharyngeal nerve, vagus nerve, spinal accessory nerve)
- Internal Aspects (CSF, cerebral aqueduct, septum pellucidum, corpus callosum, hypothalamus, thalamus, epithalamus, pineal body, arbor vitae, midbrain, pons, medulla oblongata, superior and inferior colliculi, grey matter, hippocampus)
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 120 minutes

Pig Dissection
RUNNING TIME: 10 minutes
EXTERNAL FEATURES: Running Time: 12 minutes
SYSTEMS: Running Time: 83 minutes
- Skeletal: 9 minutes
- Muscular: 9 minutes
- Digestive: 22 minutes
- Urogenital: 12 minutes
- Circulatory: 12 minutes
- Respiratory: 11 minutes
- CNS: 8 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 105 minutes

Invertebrate Investigations
RUNNING TIME: 10 minutes
- Wendy’s Welcome
CONTROLS/FUNCTIONALITY RUNNING TIME: 12 minutes
- Classification & Characteristics
- External Features
INTERNAL ANATOMY RUNNING TIME: 45 minutes
- Classification & Characteristics
- Directional Terms
- External Features
- Internal Anatomy
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 80 minutes

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