Ew, what’s that smell in Room 345?
photos courtesy of Katie Noonan, science teacher at Oakland High School
The small one weighed 20 pounds. Hoisting the big one onto a scale was out of the question, so the kids in Katie Noonan’s tenth-grade biology class at Oakland High School skipped that part and went straight to work with their forceps and scissors.
Two Humboldt squids were the source of the excitement — and the smell — coming from Room 345.
The frozen specimens were delivered to Noonan’s classroom through the Squids-4-Kids program, a partnership between Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University and NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service in Santa Cruz, CA.
Posted on Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
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