Biology 101, Chapter 3 - Aquatic Creatures

So for the first time ever in my life, I did dissections.  Well, err, I didn't do them -- I watched.  With great interest.  And wished I had my own specimen.  =)

During the first class for this chapter, we dissected a perch.
We had two males and one female.  These kids name everything, so one was named Jonah, the boys named theirs Samson (because they took out his eyes...!!!), and one was called Alfreda, after first being named Alfred and ended up being female.

exposing the gills

We ditched the saran wrap (kept sticking to the fish) in favor of freezer paper.

"Samson"

In our second class for this chapter, we dissected a crawdad, crayfish, or whatever you'd like to call it. =)

And the kids turned in their reports on an aquatic creature. =)

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