The Chicken Wing Dissection Lab

              On October 21, 2011, a middle school science class did a lab in which they dissected a chicken wing. The goal of this experiment was to find out what kinds of tissues existed in the wing and learn about them. The teacher dissected the chicken wing and the students saw it happening on the SMART boards. The teacher explained each tissue in the wing as she progressively came across them. The tissues the teacher visually showed were the skin, fat, muscle, ligament, cartilage, and nerve. The skin, fat, and nerve were attached to the muscle tissue and the muscle, ligament, and cartilage were attached to the connective tissue. Both the connective and muscle tissue had role to perform inside the chicken wing. For example, the role of the muscle tissue was to provide support and shape to the chicken wing. Overall, from this chicken wing dissection lab, one thing the science class learned was that connective tissue is the tissue that actually moves the chicken wing.