Distance Learning : Dissecting a Cow Eye

Get your goggles on! Dissect a cow eye to understand how each structure works together to provide the sense of sight, just like your human eye. After the program, work with your class on a series of optical illusions to see how your eyes and brain work together to bring you visual messages.

Museum provides cow eyes, gloves and safety glasses (yours to keep); school must provide its own dissection tools.

• Grade level: 5 – 8
• Program length: 45 minutes
• Cost: $175
• Available: November 2011 through May 2012

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U.S. National Curriculum Standards

NS.5-8.1 Science as Inquiry

• abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
• understanding about scientific inquiry

NS.5-8.3 Life Sciences

• structure and function in living systems
• regulation and behavior
• diversity and adaptations of organisms

Michigan Grade Level Content Expectations, Science v.1.09

• Describe the physical characteristics (traits) of organisms that help them survive in their environment. (L.EV.05.12)
• Relate degree of similarity in anatomical features to the classification of contemporary organisms. (L.EV.05.21)
• Recognize that all organisms are composed of cells (single cell organisms, multicellular organisms). (L.OL.07.21)
• Explain how cells make up different body tissues, organs and organ systems. (L.OL.07.22)