{"id":1902,"date":"2017-11-07T19:33:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T19:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kleducation.org\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2018-01-05T19:40:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T19:40:05","slug":"zhengzhou-digs-biology-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cambridgenetwork.cn\/cambridge-international-en\/2017\/11\/zhengzhou-digs-biology-experiments\/","title":{"rendered":"Zhengzhou Digs Into Biology Experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheep eyes as teaching supplies? Only in an American Biology class! Students on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridgenetwork.cn\/cambridge-international-en\/school\/st-marys-china\/\">SMS Zhengzhou<\/a> campus had the opportunity to take a closer look at the anatomical structure of eyes.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>During a study session on anatomy, chapters on the brain and central nervous system culminated in a practical observation of the eye. While most students were relatively calm prior to class, they had no idea how their attitudes would change when faced with the task of dissecting a sheep&#8217;s eyeball! During careful analysis, layer by layer, students found their vocabularies expanding with words such as sclera, pupil, and retina, as they began to grasp the physical structure of the eye.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1903 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cambridgenetwork.cn\/cambridge-international-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Student-with-eyeball.jpg\" alt=\"Biology student dissecting a sheep's eyeball\" width=\"818\" height=\"811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cambridgenetwork.cn\/cambridge-international-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Student-with-eyeball.jpg 818w, https:\/\/www.cambridgenetwork.cn\/cambridge-international-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Student-with-eyeball-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.cambridgenetwork.cn\/cambridge-international-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Student-with-eyeball-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cambridgenetwork.cn\/cambridge-international-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Student-with-eyeball-768x761.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Biology student dissecting a sheep&#8217;s eyeball<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Students removed muscle and fat to identify external features, and then cut into the eyeballs to expose the internal structures. From the looks on the students\u2019 faces, it seems that the girls were a bit calmer than the boys! But they pressed on in high spirits, in search of knowledge, dissecting conscientiously, recording data carefully, and silently whispering \u201cI am not afraid\u2026I am not afraid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1905 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cambridgenetwork.cn\/cambridge-international-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Students-Analysis.jpg\" alt=\"Biology students documenting observations while dissecting a sheep's eyeball\" width=\"898\" height=\"862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cambridgenetwork.cn\/cambridge-international-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Students-Analysis.jpg 898w, https:\/\/www.cambridgenetwork.cn\/cambridge-international-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Students-Analysis-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cambridgenetwork.cn\/cambridge-international-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Students-Analysis-768x737.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 898px) 100vw, 898px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Biology students documenting observations while dissecting a sheep&#8217;s eyeball<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Teachers praised them for their bravery, and now the students are eager to get to the chapter on the circulatory system where they will be dissecting a heart. One student commented on the appropriate timing of the class saying, \u201cIt was such a Halloween-feeling biology class, can we please have a dozen more classes like that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Want to join our inspiring community of educators teaching on our global campuses? Check out our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridgenetwork.cn\/cambridge-international-en\/career-opportunities\/\">KL career opportunities<\/a>\u00a0today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheep eyes as teaching supplies? Only in an American Biology class! Students on our SMS Zhengzhou campus had the opportunity to take a closer look at the anatomical structure of eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridgenetwork.cn\/cambridge-international-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridgenetwork.cn\/cambridge-international-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridgenetwork.cn\/cambridge-international-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridgenetwork.cn\/cambridge-international-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridgenetwork.cn\/cambridge-international-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1902"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridgenetwork.cn\/cambridge-international-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2182,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridgenetwork.cn\/cambridge-international-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions\/2182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridgenetwork.cn\/cambridge-international-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridgenetwork.cn\/cambridge-international-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridgenetwork.cn\/cambridge-international-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridgenetwork.cn\/cambridge-international-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}