What happens when you send 9yr olds out with a shrimp net on a dock?
They catch those little minnows that swim around the margins. Especially if they are persistent and energetic - and no one has given them any silly notions about how one must catch the minnows.
My nine year old went for the overhead swing and speed netting. Looked odd to me, but then, my "sneak up slowly" technique never caught sixteen of the little guys.
So, as a self respecting science teacher, what do you do when your child says, "can we dissect them?"
Well, you sharpen the paring knife in the boat's galley, get out your fine forceps (tweezers to the rest of the world), and go to work. (Of course I have dissecting forceps with me - for emergencies such as this, don't you?)
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| ok, cleaning a fish smaller than your pinky is harder than/as hard as it looks. |
Then, my opportunistically practical offspring asks, "Can we eat them?"
And I am forced to ponder my last trip to a tapas restaurant. Well, yes we can. And if I am going to dissect one in the name of science, why not six in the name of culinary exploration?
And thus:
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| A quick fry in a 1/4" of oil and a sprinkle of salt. Pro Tip: frying in oil on a boat galley - not normally recommended. But this was in the name of science. |
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| OhBoy! OhBoy! OhBoy! |
And finally:
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