Teachers minimize dissection because of the time and expense involved. Therefore, virtual creatures would help in teaching dissection. Many teachers avoid doing in vivo dissections because of ethical issues. Hence, a computer model would be a better vehicle for illustrating those principles. Patrick would teach computer-based dissection if given adequate resources, namely, if he would incur no additional expenses.
Most teachers prefer open-ended problems over canned lesson plans.
Frogs should be tied-in with ecology or used as a means to teach about the human body. Teachers would like to teach human anatomy and compare it with other organisms to show how they evolve and change. Frogs and pigs are used as vehicle to teach vertebrate anatomy because they are simple, inexpensive, and easy to obtain. Jumping JavaFrog presents concepts that are too simple or can be demonstrated by other programs such as the cannonball game. Organ systems would be interesting to teachers if there was a worksheet or lesson plan available for it.