Close your eyes. Now think back to when you were dissecting a frog or a fetal…
Wait. Open your eyes. You can’t read that with your eyes closed. Or this, I guess. Shoot. Never should have said to close your eyes. Hmmm…
Hey, if you’re with someone who started to read this and then closed their eyes, can you tell them to open their eyes? Thanks.
Hi. Ok, think back to when you were in middle school or high school and you were dissecting a frog or a fetal pig. Remember the smell? Of course you do. That’s not frog, and it’s not pig. It’s formaldehyde. And formaldehyde is still used in many schools for dissections, but there are a lot of other supplies that are needed too.
That’s where a grant from the Foundation came in. Middle schoolers dissect sheep hearts in 6th grade, frogs in 7th grade, and sheep eyes in 8th grade. This spring, Christina Zink, on behalf of the EGRMS science department, applied for a mini grant from the Foundation for $1,492.40 to cover new dissection materials, including trays, scissors, and probes.
In May, we had a nice note from Zink, in which she said, “Just wanted to say thank you again for all of the help with the grant. Our dissection went better than ever this year and I think one of the main reasons was because of the supplies this grant provided.”
Thank you, Foundation donors, for providing these supplies for our students!
