Dissection

One morning, the kids discovered a large, very dead grasshopper had chosen our Trusty Red Wagon to expire in.

Scooby came running into the house in great excitement, cradling his wee corpse and showing it to me with shining eyes.

She asked if he was dead.

She asked if he "had any feelings" now.

She asked if she could "look inside him."

Reassured, and leaving me glowing with Science Nerd Pride, she beetled off and gathered some dissecting tools - a craft stick and a twig.


She hunkered down outside at the picnic table and spent over an hour very carefully inspecting and dissecting this grasshopper.

She spread his wings out carefully, and gently detached his head, showing an interested Baby Man everything as she did.

We did some basic anatomy and talked about compound eyes.


We all learned that grasshoppers have five eyes! Two compound and three simple. Who knew?

HW