Eva Hernandez-Rosas held up the crayfish to her classmates in her group.
They observed how their crayfish responded and put it back down into the basin and wrote down what they saw.
Around them Andersonville Elementary fourth-graders were doing the same thing in Kelly Willard’s class.
The students were learning about the structures of life for science and focusing on the crayfish.
They had studied the crayfish’s habitat, characteristics, adaptations and food webs.
During their observations last Thursday they also noted each crayfish had a different personality.
When the students reached into the crayfish’s basin some squirmes away or were aggressive. They also observed how the crayfish reacted if they touched it’s back, tail, antennas or put another crayfish in the environment.
Megan Lockwood noticed her group’s crayfish stayed still when they left it completely alone and would go into their houses once the houses were put into the basin.