I have watched Finding Nemo before, but when I did, I just watched it normally, like any other movie, not really noticing cool or weird things that happen in it, just enjoying the movie. Now that I watched it knowing the things I learned from this class, I actually looked at some things differently in this movie. Near the beginning of the movie when Nemo was going to school, I saw a pink flatworm. Normally I wouldn't even have thought about that flatworm, because I did not even know what that thing was before this class. But when I saw it yesterday, I actually noticed it. I remember thinking, "Hey, a flatworm!" Another thing that I looked at differently was when Nemo's dad found Dori unconscious in the jellyfish's stingers. When I watched this before I just thought she was unconscious because of electrocution. But, when I saw that yesterday, I knew that it was because of these coiled threads that jellyfish have in their stingers, which uncoil and go into the prey when the stingers are touched. The threads paralyze the prey while doing this. I actually knew what had happened. I remember thinking about the time we learned about cnidarians, when I saw this. I can relate our "curiosity and asking questions" theme to this movie, because when I was watching it I was wondering about a lot of things,which I never noticed before. I was wondering about the manta ray teacher. What do manta rays eat? I realized that I didn't know anything about them. Also, those fish that told Dori to go through the trench and not over. I was wondering how they each move in perfect formation. How do they know where to go like they are one big animal? I would like to know that.
Good post Shan. I like that you thought about both the things that we have learned and the things you would like to learn about. Very cool. I was thinking the same thing about that fish with the light on it's antennae - I think I try to figure out what that is.
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