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During seventh-grade science, under the mentorship and supervision of Sharon Foster H’06, students would complete a rat dissection and “make a study skin.” Sharon chose rats for dissection because the placement of their organs mimicked those of humans. Her ultimate goal: for the seventh-graders to understand their own anatomy. The dissection took place in class.

During seventh-grade science, under the mentorship and supervision of Sharon Foster H’06, students would complete a rat dissection and “make a study skin.”

Before the dissection, students would skin their rats and take the skins home to make a study skin. They would clean, stuff and sew the rat to make a proper scientific specimen. This part of the project was quite tricky for seventh-graders to accomplish.

KC Kent ’98 sewing her rat.