We were lucky enough to get hold of a massive snapper (thank you Fish City). We used it to do all sorts of learning such as dissecting its eye, estimating and measuring its weight (12 kg) and length (82 cm), researching facts about it and grouping the information into paragraphs, identifying it's anatomy and an experiment to discover the best way to remove fish smell from hands.
A number of our estimates were reasonably close to the actual weight, but most of our length estimates were too short. Dissecting the eye was quite difficult as it was messy and hard to cut through. We did recognize from our diagram the lens of the eye - a little round clear ball. In our research we looked for some records in size and weight of snapper. We got a number of different answers which showed us the importance of triangulating search results to ensure the information we get is accurate.
We have now buried the fish and will dig it up in a few months to observe the rates of decomposition of different parts of the fish.
That was one huge fish, I would like to catch one that big.
ReplyDeleteIt was really fun smelling and cutting open the fish!! it was cool looking at the eye it looks really disgusting when it was ripped open it was AWESOME!!:D Paige
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