We went fishing yesterday and one of us caught our first fish. I tend to dislike dissection for dissection’s sake, at least with middle schoolers, but I believe that cleaning fish is a practical life exercise everyone should have that accomplishes the same thing. There is also an ethical dimension for anyone who eats meat. I have no opposition to cleaning anything else if we’re willing to eat it.
So we’ll probably be cooking fish this year. There aren’t many places to purchase whole fish in Memphis so we’ll probably end up doing it during our immersions. An article on the ethics of vegetarianism might also make a good basis for a Socratic dialogue.