:: SYNFROG ::
This is the future of frog dissection
This new state-of-the-art technology will help save millions of frogs around the world, improve student learning and eliminate exposure to toxic chemicals!
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PETA has joined forces with SynDaver– the world’s leading manufacturer of hyperrealistic synthetic surgical simulators for humans and animals – to develop a new simulated full-body frog model called SynFrog ™, which could completely replace the use of frog carcasses in school and school classrooms and classrooms. … In 2018, we approached SynDaver with the idea of making a life-like frog that could be cut in the same way that students cut a real frog. Well, great minds think alike! SynDaver has already worked on this concept and PETA has agreed to become a major funding partner to help the company get it up and running.
As educators, TeachKind staff know that “hands-on” sessions are an important part of the kinesthetic learning process, but killing millions of animals each year so that students can deal with them in classroom dissection exercises is not justified.
Let’s be real: Autopsies of animals are random. It smells like death and cancer-causing chemicals, and students are increasingly refusing to butcher animals that have been slaughtered for the dissecting tray.
Every year, at least 3 million frogs containing cancer-causing chemicals are dissected by schoolchildren in the United States and then thrown away in the trash. This practice – which has hardly changed over a century – fosters callousness towards animals, creates unnecessary health risks, and discourages some students from pursuing careers in science… It is difficult to imagine what kind of discoveries the world is losing as a result.
SynFrog boasts external and internal anatomical landmarks in a high quality realistic dissectable model that is not exposed to carcinogenic chemicals.
Here’s what to expect from SynFrog:
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Female frog model
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Outer leather “with gloves” with a cut along the dorsal surface
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Soft tissue representing the layer of muscle under the skin and the visible layer of the mesentery.
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Circulatory system: posterior vena cava, anterior vena cava, trunk arterial, systemic arch and dorsal aorta
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Organs: esophagus, trachea, lungs (with bronchi and larynx), heart, liver (right lobe, left anterior lobe and left posterior lobe), gallbladder, stomach, pancreas, small intestine (about 2.5 times longer than the body of the frog – can be removed and untangled for measurement), large intestine, kidneys, ureters, bladder, ovaries and cloaca
SynFrog accurately mimics living tissue, in contrast to canned frogs, which are most often monochromatic, making it difficult to identify different parts of their anatomy.
Free Additional SynFrog Autopsy Tutorials Available! Download and complete the Facts and Comparative Anatomy worksheets here. The SynFrog Facebook Live Dissection Event Pre-Lab and Frog Dissection Lab worksheets and answer sheet are also available for use. Watch the PETA instructional video below which covers the external and internal anatomy, classification and comparative anatomy. For teachers who might need a video tutorial to share directly with students, click here.
JW Mitchell High School in New Port Richey, Florida was the very first school to use SynFrog and the reviews were excellent:
“So, children are involved, they are in this, they are up to their ears in frog intestines, but all this is synthetic, so there is no smell, no stigma, they do not refuse. Every child is interested, and we have students of all academic levels in our chosen classes, as well as teachers with whom they work with us, and they are all interested in this. “
—JW Mitchell Headmaster Jessica Schultz
“And real frogs, they don’t really have to live and then die so we can dissect them, so I definitely prefer that.”
– J.W. Mitchell student Maddie Foster
There is no shortage of autopsy-related misconduct in schools. juggling with dead frogs to make dead cats dance, in addition to the brutality inherent in standard vendor “sample” dissection techniques such as Bio Corporationwhich made headlines after a 2017 PETA investigation.
SynFrog is in a unique position to help prevent the death of millions of frogs during autopsy in the classroom around the world, and you can be part of that progress!
If you are a teacher or administrator looking to learn more about replacing frog carcasses with the SynFrog model, fill out the form below and TeachKind will contact you for more details.
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