Imposing, smelly Humboldt squids a hit in Wesley Chapel classroom.
Ahh, that fishy smell. It wafted through the school’s hallways on Friday as marine sciences classes got the opportunity to dissect and examine nearly 5-foot-long Humboldt squids for the end of their invertebrate unit.
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“You guys, stop,” Keaundra responded as her classmates put the tangerine-sized eyeball close to her.
Then the unexpected. Keaundra took the eye. She smiled wide.
“It feels like someone is looking at me,” she said. “It’s interesting. What if my eye was this big?”
How big? Science department chairwoman Susan Cullum explained to the class that proportionally, the Humboldt squid has the biggest eye of any animal. A student would have an eye the size of his head to get the same ratio, she said to whoas and oohs.
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“This should be the FCAT science test right here,” Crystal said, as she felt around the squid’s mantle, working to avoid the ink sac. “This should be the way they test science.”
Yes, Crystal, I agree. That’s how real science is done, so why wouldn’t science knowledge be tested in this way?
“It feels like someone is looking at me,†she said. “It’s interesting. What if my eye was this big?†Makes you wonder why an intelligent designer would make a squids eye better and more effective than a humans.
And I thought humans were the pinnacle of creation?
When I took biology in high school 30 years (in California), my biology teacher DID test us that way. Some tests were multiple-choice, but a good part of the exam grade each semester consisted of questions related to all sorts of slides and gooey things he arranged in the lab space.