The Exploratorium's Cow's Eye Dissection Information

Located just behind the Palace of Fine Arts, the Exploratorium, a museum in San Francisco is worth a stop. The museum houses over 1000 original hands-on exhibits, displays and artworks, with 400 currently on display. These interactive exhibits cover various fields including biology, physics, visual perception, listening and mind.

The Exploratorium is no more than just a museum. It's an ongoing exploration of science, art and human perception with a wide range of collection of online inter-actives, web features, activities, programs and events that gratify your curiosity. That is to say, there are a variety of ways available for visitors to explore the museum, including exhibits, webcasts, websites and events.

When it comes to exploring the museum by websites, the Exploratorium is one of the first science museums to build a site on the World Wide Web with establishing time of 1993. Its website is created to enhance visitors experience and also give people all over the world access to explore the Exploratorium.

This large site for the Exploratorium not only offers pages with plentiful info about the museum, but also provides many resources featuring sound and video files, exploring hundreds of different topics.

Website for Exploratorium

http://www.exploratorium.edu/about/about_website/

One of the most popular sound and video files is the cow's eye dissection. It was created to help young and old gratify their curiosity about what is inside an eye. With this resource, you can learn how to dissect a cow's eye in your classroom or at home. The resource includes:

- Step-by-step demonstrations (demonstrating a cow eye dissection)

- Hints and tips (offering audio information from Exploratorium planners)

- A cow eye primer (featuring a small interactive program that teaches about the parts of the eye)

- A glossary of terms

- Links to other eye websites

- A feedback area

If you want to try this at home, be sure to check the page and learn about the dissection before acting. Also remember to make some preliminary preparation for materials required for this dissection. Here's what you need for a cow's eye dissection:

- One cow's eye for every two participants

- One single-edged razor blade or scalpel for every two participants

- Scissors (optional)

- Wax paper and paper towels

- Plastic garbage bag

- A cutting board or other surface on which you can cut

- A sheet of newspaper

- Soap, water and paper towels for cleaning up

You can order cow's eyes at a butcher shop or buy them directly from a slaughterhouse. Eyes with the muscles and fat still attached are a better choice. If possible, pick up the cow's eyes the day of the dissection, as fresh eyes are easier to cut.

Are you ready? Click on the link to Exploratorium's cow's eye dissection and begin to study.

Exploratorium's Cow's Eye Dissection

http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cow_eye/

If you are not interested in cow's eye dissection, there are many other fun topics offered by Exploratorium website, including:

- Microscope Imaging Station - creating high-resolution and movies of the microscopic world using research-grade microscopes

- Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know?

- Origins - Exploring the places, people, tools and ideas behind the originals of matter, the universe and life itself

- Unwinding DNA: Life at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - telling the untold stories behind scientific discovery

- Science of Gardening - discovering the succulent science of making things grow

- From Jungle to Lab: The Study of Life's Complexity - the study of biodiversity

- Extremophiles in Kamchatka - following scientists to search for life in the hot springs of the Russia Far East

- Traits of Life

- Frogs

- Astrobiology: The Search for Life - learning about the search for life elsewhere in the universe

- The DNA Files: Hands-on Workshops

You can find more info and details about these topics on this page:

Explore Living Things at Exploratorium

http://www.exploratorium.edu/explore/topics/living_things#top