This is a picture of the brain that our group dissected. We cut it down the mid-section of the brain like a bread loaf.
We have been talking about the brain in our class and actually dissecting the brain let us see the parts of the brain that we were talking about such as the white matter and gray matter that you can see in the picture above. When dissecting the brain, we had to first remove the cover off of the brain, and that is the shell like coating that you see on the top of the picture. It was weird at first to see a real brain, and that all the pictures and things that you see of brains, it actually really looks like that. With all the the learning of brains in class it's really nice to get the opportunity to see the real thing, and it helps you to see the anatomy of an actual brain.When dissecting the brain, we first got all the tools that we needed. We got a tray, rubber mat, scissors, scalpel, and probe. we then figured out in our group which way we were going to cut our brain, and we decided to cut it down the mid section. It came out pretty good and we saw everything really clear! We went around after we were done and looked at everyone else's brains and saw the different cuts that different groups did. It was a fun dissection and I would definitely do something like that again.
Here are a couple pictures of the other brains that the other groups dissected.
