Dissection activities and quizzes feature positive reinforcement and audio cues. It is organised into sections, ie. External organs and structures, and the circulatory, respiratory, digestive and urogenital systems. The dissection may be viewed in its entirety, or section by section when students have more time to assimilate the extensive amount of information generated from a study of this type. Enables students to view the circulatory and respiratory systems in motion and allows visual of organs and structures.
Handouts provide answers to the questions and exercises interspersed throughout the video film.
Further information about rats and mammals, and colour photographs and overheads of different stages assist students' understanding of the organisation and connections between organs. It also allows students to explore and identify the biological features of evolutionary significance that determine the position of mammals and other classes within the vertebrate kingdom. This section gives the student the option to explore each of the major organ systems from an anatomical, physiological or histological perspective by using video, audio commentary, synchronised graphics, rollover text and menu bar navigation. The CD-ROM contains more than 50 minutes of video including footage of the live animal and dissection technique, audio tape introductions to all sequences, more than 100 histological slides that can be viewed at four common magnifications, diagrams, animations and text to provide a rich learning environment through which to study mammalian biology. Audio commentary and slide rollovers simplify the identification of cell types and their function.