The Deep Sea Squid
The Deep Sea Squid is famous for breaking off the tip of its arm to defend itself. Wherever the deep sea squid is threatened, its way of defending itself is breaking off the tip of its own arm and leaving it behind in order to distract the predator, after the squid breaks off the tip of its arm, it continues to glow and twitch which distracts the predator even more, which also allows the squid to get away.
Hi Angle i'm Lincoln from Rawhiti School. That is amazing, do you know what depth are they commonly found? I wonder how the arm glows when it breaks off? I also wonder what speed they could get to?.
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting on Angel's blogpost Lincoln. In class, we were reading about unusual defences that some animals had and Angel and the other students in class had to summarise the main facts that they found. Part of their learning was about improving literacy by asking questions, clarifying and predicting. Just like you did, questions help us clarify the world around us and all the texts we see, hear, watch or read. I wonder if it's chemicals in the squid, or some form of electrical signal? Or both? Or something else? When my son Duncan was in primary school he learnt that squid and other cephalopods use jet propulsion to move faster through the water. Great questions too Lincoln!
DeleteGreat summary Angel, and your facts reminded me about deep sea squid. I used to see the Japanese squid boats off the coast of Waimate, because they had very strong lights that attracted the squid to the lights on the surface of the ocean. I wonder if these were the same deep sea squid you wrote about, and like Lincoln from Rawhiti school, I wondered about this glowing that they do. I've got a theory that they glow to communicate with each in the dark, deep waters. Today with the other teachers from around the Christchurch Manaiakalani project, we looked at how some students enhance their presentations using other forms of media, such as video with your commentary. Or by using visual features to amplify your message visually, such as Cooltext (https://cooltext.com/). You, or Lincoln from Rawhiti School, could make a screencastify to show other students how to add some form of glowing text in your presentation. An extension challenge would be to animate your own text and include a how-to DLO for other Christchurch digital learners who, like you Angel, are on their learning journey.
ReplyDeleteHi I am Charlotte from Rawhiti School. I loved all the facts and information that you wrote. it made me think that I could swim in the sea to find squids. I think next time you could do the fact that they make ink whenever they are scared.
ReplyDelete