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Fremont students dissect squids

Screeching and squealing filled the room as Fremont Intermediate School students dissected squid as part of an animal kingdom science unit on vertebrates and invertebrates Thursday.

Students learned how even though a squid doesn't have a spinal column, it is able to protect itself from its enemies in the ocean. They also learned that it is part of the mollusk family.

The smells of the ocean filled the room as the slimy squid were dissected as part of their unit on animal systems.

"The point (of the exercise) is to see that the squid does not have a backbone, it is an invertebrate and it uses its pen to swim," said third-/fourth-grade teacher Amanda Ramirez.

The hands-on lab experiment allows students to see the various organs and how they function. Students removed the pen, the brain, the ink sack, the eyes and the beak.

"Even though it doesn't have a backbone, it still has a hard structure," Ramirez added.

The students used the scientific method during the squid dissection, which is: observation, measurement, experimentation, testing and hypotheses.

  Fremont Intermediate School students in multi-age third- and fourth grade classes dissected squid Thursday in Mundelein. Steve Lundy/slundy@dailyherald.com
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