Cow Eye Dissection

The boys completed their final dissection for the year; a cow eyeball.  After our last dissection, this one truly felt like a piece of cake!   :D  The only downside was that our eyeball seemed to be a little less than fresh.  :(  Sadly, it was more of a dried up ball.  But, we were still able to do the dissection and identify everything.  We just weren't able to do all the cool things with the lens that we had hoped.

what the lens SHOULD look like…

what our pitiful lens looked like…  :(

But this part was cool!  The tapetum at the back of the eye.

Here is a terrific link about cow eye dissections.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cow_eye/