5th Grade Students Dissect Squids

The squid dissections were really fun. What we did was we got the squid on a platter and we got a pair of mini scissors and some things that could pick up the stuff we found in the squid. We cut open the top of the squid and we looked at what was in the inside of it. We also found the eyes and the tentacles and the arms. On the tentacles, there was lots of suction cups. The arms had suction cups, but not as much as the tentacles. We found the beak and it was squished in all of the arms. When we took out the beak (mouth) It was in the shape of a ball. I would have never suspected it would be like a ball. We got to take out the eyeballs and we found out the eyeballs were on the side of the head! We got to see the brain and the ink sak. The ink sak was really cool because I thought it would be a ball but it was something that looked like a fin. We got to cut open the stomach and one of the groups found a dead fish in theirs! We also found the heart of the heart of the squid and at the beginning, we pulled out a thing that looks like plastic that the squid naturally grows in its body. And luckily, there was no blood because they put on something that makes it so there isn’t any blood. Squid dissections were really fun! --Eli Sweat Miss Johnson, 5th Grade