Peter and our adventure!

This week was very fun!  Peter Stortz, a teacher and natural resource and youth development specialists working for UAF, came to our school.  He taught us many things like how many people live in the world by using rice.  It would take 45,500 gallons of rice to equal 7 billion people in the world.  We also learned about how fish go back to their natural habitat called the natal stream after they come back from the ocean.  He also showed us a presentation about the time he went to Mongolia.  He said it is better to ask more questions than worrying about the right answers.  After he taught us all the names of the fins and the internal organs, he taught us how to dissect a fish.  When we were dissecting the fish we had to cut it open from the anal fin to the pectoral fin.  We took out all the organs he taught us about.  We made fish prints using the fish we had just dissected.  To make a fish print we sponge painted the fish, then put a paper on it and pushed down on it to get a print of the scales.  After we pulled the paper off we painted on the lateral line and the eye.  The lateral line is like GPS for the fish.  It is a horizontal line across the middle.   The most important thing he taught us was despite our differences we should accept everyone for who they are.  We had a busy week!

Meet Peter!  He visited us this week.  He taught us lots of stuff like how to dissect fish, all of the scientific names of the fins and internal organs of fish, and you don't need a camera to take a picture.  In this picture Peter is showing us his puppet fish.  He is demonstrating the milt sack.  Peter is really energetic and fun!   

Team A with their string writing poster, clockwise from back left: Dolly, Colleen, Loretta, Sheryl, Kaylee, Benise, Keilan, Bobby

While Peter was here we did a teamwork strengthening activity.  We were string writing.  That means we used a marker attached to yarn to write "we can make a difference in Igiugig".  Team 1, clockwise from left: Kiara, Caleb, Josephine, Blaise, Charmaine, Kaleb, Aiden, Jolynn, Katelyn.

Kiara pretending to eat the liver out of the rainbow fish she was dissecting.

Katelyn having fun making her fish print!

Peter and Kaylee working together to make a fish print.