Re: [Killietalk] classroom advice

["YoHoHo" <yohoho at insightbb_com>]

Hi Gary,
I'm thinking you could steal a page from the "TV Cooks", where they prepare 
a meal, throw it in the oven on one shelf, and take the finished product off 
of another shelf of the oven.  What I mean is, start with Simp 
perpendicularis, or some killie of interest, and take the kids through the 
setting up the peat, collecting, bagging, labeling, etc.  In the meantime, 
have a bag or two of that species eggs/peat that is "ready to go".  That 
way, the next day after they go through the egg/peat bagging and storing, 
they can open and examine the "ready to go" peat for eggs, (hopefully) view 
eggs ready to hatch, and then immerse them for hatching, rearing, etc. 
Shouldn't be too hard to get a bag or two of some of the more readily 
avalilable species.  That way, the kids attention span won't have time to 
fade out.  They can readily see the results, while seeing how the eggs are 
collected, incubated, etc.
Hope this helps,
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Frank Carriglitto
AKA#08234, ChiKA, WAKO

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>
> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:27:54 +0000
> From: "wm crash" <wm_crash at hotmail_com>
> Subject: Re: [Killietalk] classroom advice
> To: killietalk at aka_org
>
> Howdy,
>
> I suggest Simp perpendicularis. The hatches are very reliable, the fish 
> are
> very hardy, and with large enough tanks (5G or so), they will sex out and
> start laying eggs in less than two months. If the eggs are kept at around
> 80F (or above), they will be ready to hatch in 3 weeks.
>
> Not to mention, a fish that teaches geometry should be welcome in any
> school; next semester we should aim for Simp parallelus.
>
> take care,
> wm_crash, the friendly hooligan
> AKA #08840, SAA #162, SVAS #120, HOOLIGAN #1
> Wilmington, DE
>
>>Hi,
>>I was approached by a science teacher in the high school where I teach,
>>about the question of finding "an aquatic organism that can be hatched in 
>>a
>>classroom that will impress the kids". His classroom experiment would 
>>begin
>>in March and continue through April and May - a very short period for my
>>Aphyosemions to be of much use. While I have bred a few annuals to see 
>>what
>>it's like, they frankly don't interest me much and I don't have any in my
>>fishroom.
>>Does anyone on the list have suggestions about a hardy fast-growing
>>(essential with the tight timeline) annual for such an experiment/learning
>>process?
>>Gary Elson
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