During health class yesterday afternoon, Linda, the special education teacher, and I dissected Caribou hearts with the kids!
It was definitely a neat experience for us as well as the kids. We had talked about the human heart and labeled the parts on a picture, but to hold a caribou heart and actually cut into it to see what an aorta looks like and what a chamber looks like is really cool!
A caribou heart is a lot larger than a human heart, but has pretty similar anatomy.
It isn’t everywhere that you could send a kid home with a homework assignment of bringing in an animal heart and he shows up for school with one in a ziplock bag. His cousin just shot that caribou the day before!
In most groups of kids there would at least be one who is squeamish or grossed out by dissection, but not here! They all were so comfortable with cutting caribou. It was only me, the city girl, that thought it was a novel thing to do!
The kids thought it was really funny to try and convince me that they would eat the raw heart. They do really eat heart, but they cook it first.
Dinner is served!
~Gretchen
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