Here is the latest installment of my paper animal dissections which are becoming popular these days for different reasons. Even thought the octopus isn't a standard animal that is dissected in Biology classrooms, it could be dissected in Marine Bio and AP Bio. Advanced 8th grade science and regular Biology classrooms could also do this activity as an added-on activity when doing the frog or fetal pig for comparison, when learning about classification and the different classes in the animal kingdom, or when learning about body systems. It could be used as a pre or post-dissection activity, review, home work assignment or sub assignment. This one is a little tricky to glue together just right but the directions should work well, since I completed one myself to make sure. I now include a side-view diagram with my dissections along with the ventral view so that they can see the layers in the animal. Students cut out the organs, color them, and glue them in dorsal organs first so that they end up at the ventral surface where you would cut during a real dissection. So, it's kind of like a backwards dissection. Questions and keys are included. Have fun. Students love to do these!