Anatomy and Physiology

Lab Roles for Muscle Dissection Lab

Spring 2016
Pre-Lab Lab Roles

Person
Responsib
le Day 1

Person
Responsi
ble Day 2

Person
Responsi
ble Day
3

Get goggles and aprons for the lab group (Bring

back to lab group in classroom area.)

Caitlyn Caitlyn NA

Update Lab Roles for Muscle Dissection Lab

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

Caitlyn Caitlyn NA

Get procedure sheets/verbal instructions from me

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

Eve

Eve

NA

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

Eve

Eve

NA

Put green tray with dissecting instruments on lab

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

Jack

Jack

NA

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

Jack/
Jack/
NA
Caitlyn Caitlyn

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

Eve

Eve

NA

Actual dissection (dissectors)/clean, isolate and

identify each specific muscle

Jack

Jack/
NA
Caitlyn

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.)

Caitlyn Caitlyn NA
/
Eve

Label the specified muscles as they are isolated

and identified/Take images of the properly isolated,
identified and labeled muscles.

Eve

Eve

NA

Jack

Jack

NA

Eve

Eve

NA

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.

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
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

Caitlyn Caitlyn NA

Clean lab table with purple cleaner and paper

towels

Caitlyn Caitlyn NA

Dry dissecting tray and set it up for the next

dissection or put it away.

Eve

Eve

NA