I recently read an essay called "Marin teen honored for alternatives to real-frog dissection" about Indigo Prasad, a seventh-grader at Mark Day School in San Rafael, California. I was thrilled to see ...

The frogs are made using synthetic tissue and mimic properties of a live frog. The smell of formaldehyde in classrooms may soon be a thing of the past as high schools begin to introduce synthetic ...

Dear EarthTalk: Are the animals used in classroom dissection taken from the wild? If so, wouldn't this be endangering their populations? Are there other environmental issues associated with classroom ...