Dissection is a way for students to get a hands-on feel for how an organism’s body works. It makes students think about how actually miraculous it all is; all of the picking and prodding at with things pays off by teaching us the inner workings of something. We learn about the way it stays alive, the way it reproduces, the way it lives. Whether it be an earthworm, or a frog, or a cat, students always learn a lot of stuff when they take those scissors, cut open an organism, and dive into an exploration of the workings of an organism, no matter how gross they think it is.