Dissecting a Squid

  Students are very excited about this project. they are very loud at the beginning of class the class is set up with newspaper on the tables and beautiful bright gloves to protect their hands. Each student is given scissors, two pins to hold down squid, and tweezeers. Mrs Vibbert is placing a squid onto each try and placing it on the table. the students are laughing instead of puking.  I chose to blog to avoid puking, the smell is discusting. Im learning that Squids change colors to camaflague in water. Mrs Vibbert is showing the students all the body parts. The mantle(body), the eyes, the beak (the mouth) etc...
   They are now cutting through the mantle which is very thick so its not easy...yuck! The part of the squid that we eat is the mantle. Im pretty sure ill never eat calamari again. The students are saying that the insides look like peanut butter and that is true, yuck. We have a couple of girls that couldn't take it so they quit and watched. A couple of boys went a little overboard and had to be asked to quit before time due to thier unnessary cutting of the squid. One exceptional student found the heart of his squid.Their was only one girl who took the smell and completed the dissecting. Maybe she will be a docter, what a brave young lady. The students learned that the fins, gills,tenticles, and the flippers help the squid to adapt in the water enviroment.