Enter The Digital Frog 2, seamless software for the biology classroom which helps take the guesswork out of dissection. It allows kids the freedom to perform each cut themselves or to study how actual dissections are done. The interface is incredibly intuitive. For instance, you can access the screen by either using menus, a map or typing in the subject by using a Find feature. You can also bookmark certain screens for quick reference.
Interactive dissections allow students to study the structure and function of each organ.
This software provides students with an alternative to dissection, whether they have issues with animal rights, they are reluctant to dissect, they have asthma or allergies to chemical preservatives or they miss a lab and need to review course material. Although a mouse is much easier to manipulate than a real scalpel, this software lends well to digitizing tablets. I used a Wacom Graphire mouse pen and was pleased at the precision of the cuts. Like a real dissection, students must dissect in the correct order. If, for example, you click on the wrong organ, you will receive a message stating that you should dissect an overlaying organ instead.