Anatomy and Physiology

Lab Roles for Muscle Dissection Lab

Fall 2015
Pre-Lab Lab Roles

Person
Responsibl
e Day 1

Person
Responsibl
e Day 2

Person
Responsibl
e Day 3

Get goggles and aprons for the lab group

(Bring back to lab group in classroom area.)

Abigail

Abigail

Abigail

Update Lab Roles for Muscle Dissection Lab

sheet/Turn in at the end of each day of the lab

Carly

Carly

Carly

Get procedure sheets/verbal instructions

from me (Share this with your lab group before you
begin the dissection.)

Lizzette Lizzette

Lizzette

Check each group member for close-toed

shoes, hair and clothes pulled back, goggles and
apron worn properly/Put a checkmark by your group
number on the front board

Makala

Makala

Makala

Put green tray with dissecting instruments on

lab station/Put dissecting tray on table and cover
with paper towels

Abigail

Abigail

Abigail

Get cat out of bag and put on paper towel

covered dissecting tray/Empty fluid from plastic bag
and put it in tan tub; put tub under lab station

Makala, Makala, Makala

Lizzette Lizzette ,
Lizzette

During Dissection Lab Roles

Read procedure instructions for the
dissectors/Direct dissecting: make sure each group
member gets a chance to dissect; keep group on
task; be aware of time

Carly

Carly

Carly

Actual dissection (dissectors)/Lab the

specified muscles as they are isolated and identified

Makala

Makala

Makala

Compose the technical journal for the lab

report (This is a step by step log of what happens
each day during the dissection. The easiest way to
do this is a bulleted list.)

Abigail

Abigail

Abigail

Take images of the properly isolated,

identified and labeled muscles.

Lizzette Lizzette

Lizzette

Clean up Lab Roles

Put cat back into bag, close the bag with
clamps, put into second bag and close it with paper
clips; put it back into the tan tub and put it under
your lab table.

Makala, Makala, Makala

Abigail Abigail
,
Abigail

Clean dissecting tray with paper towels used

to line tray, discard these and any tissue pieces, and

Carly

Carly

Carly

then bring tray to me to be rinsed

Clean, dry and put away dissecting
instruments; put dissecting equipment into green
tray and put the tray under your lab station empty
water from plastic containers

Lizzette Lizzette

Lizzette

Clean lab table with purple cleaner and paper

towels

Abigail

Abigail

Abigail

Dry dissecting tray and set it up for the next

dissection or put it away.

Carly

Carly

Carly