I have now completed multiple sections of Biology Essentials: Dissection Alternatives and have incorporated student feedback to improve these classes. Color models, more step by step pictures, opportunity to practice dissecting non-animal specimens, practice pinning models. I enjoy these classes in that they highlight unique characteristics of each animal, and also help easily see similarities between animal systems. It is a most interesting study! 

I taught Biology lab in-person at local co-op for a few years, multiple biology lab sections each year. I have dissected a lot of real specimens: earth worms, crayfish, frogs and perch. I have helped students learn dissection throughout the lab courses and helped them learn to see things that are difficult to recognize when still a novice in lab techniques. I hope to help your student grow in confidence and lab experience, as I help guide their studies. You can learn a lot from books, but there is no substitute for the experience of real hand's on learning and seeing the wonders of Biology. The reason I love specifically Biology, is that it seems so simple, however when you look closer either microscopic or macroscopic the complexity is just awesome. 

**Note: Biology courses will focus on facts, when necessary references to micro-evolution, only, may be included as these are scientifically observable changes. 

Getting Nerdy with Mel and Gerdy, Science Interactive Notebook - Human Body Systems
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