The "Amphioxus song", produced in and for biological summer schools in the interwar US, rejoices in this classroom staple: A fish-like thing appeared among the annelids one day; It hadn't any parapods or setae to display.
In the small gymnasium was information about biodiversity and the evils of fast food, and in a classroom about oceans and fish in peril.
His classroom was adorned with fish tanks full of various critters like frogs, insects, turtles and always plenty of snakes.
A respite may be on the way: Haraguchi hopes to open a new place nearby part fish market, part classroom, part sushi bar this summer.
On the other side of the Atlantic, the brisk trade in fish bait and classroom specimens is so far known to consist only of L. terrestris.
The school still bears the signs of its progressive origins — conga sets and fish tanks in classrooms, handmade posters about journal writing and peer editing, lists of predicted results for science experiments.
They began growing beans and writing in their journals about plant growth, keeping birds and fish in some classrooms to observe their habits and doing yet more laboratory work, said Marilyn Allen, the principal at Whittier in one of the nation's poorest districts.
