Anatomy and Physiology

Lab Roles for Thoracic Cavity Dissection Lab Fall 2015

Pre-Lab Lab Roles

Person Responsible
Day 1

Person Responsible
Day 2

Get goggles and aprons for the lab group

(Bring back to lab group in classroom area.)

Savanah

Jessica

Update Lab Roles for Thoracic Cavity

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

Nicole

Nicole

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

Savanah

Nicole

Put green tray with dissecting

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

Jessica

Jessica

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

Mia, Nicole

Jessica,
Nicole

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

Savanah

Nicole

Actual dissection (dissectors)/Label the

specified muscles as they are isolated and
identified

Mia, Nicole

Nicole

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.)

Savanah

Jessica

Take images of the properly isolated,

identified and labeled muscles.

Jessica

Jessica

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.

Mia, Nicole

Jessica,
Nicole

Clean dissecting tray with paper towels

used to line tray, discard these and any tissue
pieces, and then bring tray to me to be rinsed

Savanah

Jessica

Clean, dry and put away dissecting

instruments; put dissecting equipment into

Nicole

Nicole

During Dissection Lab Roles

Clean up Lab Roles

green tray and put the tray under your lab

station empty water from plastic containers
Clean lab table with purple cleaner and
paper towels

Jessica, Mia

Jessica,
Nicole

Dry dissecting tray and set it up for the

next dissection or put it away.

Savanah

Jessica