Two Year 12 students have written a recount about a recent Biology lesson where students dissected cow eyeballs.

Written by Charlotte W and Emma K who are in Ms Kapeliotis' Biology class.

This term Year 12 biology students were able to perform a dissection on a cow eyeball. This opportunity afforded us an increased understanding of the structures, functions and overall purpose of this incredibly complex organ.

Throughout the dissection we were able to observe the many components responsible for vision including the cornea, lens and retina, seeing these elements in such detail not only furthered our understanding of their individual appearance, function and purpose but also the overall structure of the eye as an organ and how each of these pieces contributes to vision.

Having such an in-depth understanding of the eye has been incredibly beneficial to our studies and our eventual HSC exam as such a comprehensive understanding is a critical component of the course syllabus. This experiment also provided us with a higher level of scientific skills as we were required to plan and enact this dissection based on information gathered from secondary sources, as well as  increasing our ability to safely and effectively perform such an experiment through the dissection itself.

During the end of the lesson students were required to complete a scientific report on their findings which called on our scientific thinking skills to consolidate the results in discussion questions and a conclusion.