Last Thursday and Friday, Ms. Barata's ROP students performed autopsies on multiple little pigs. In the class, the students study the human body, and shadow jobs at the hospital 3 days a week. They've learned all the body systems, which leads to this forensic lab in pathology. The students are given a dead pig, and they must figure out how it died. The steps they go through in order to find the cause of death are the same steps that occur during real autopsies for humans. One of the groups had discovered that their pig had been punctured through the liver and the abdominal cavity. The purpose of this lab was to educate the ROP students on real life autopsies and to have an understanding of internal body parts, organs, intestines, etc. It was a taste of the real world and the real tasks that the students are planning to pursue in the future.