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Mitk12: Squid Skin With a Mind of Its Own Instructional VideoMitk12: Squid Skin With a Mind of Its Own Instructional Video
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Pre-K - 1st
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Mitk12: Squid Skin With a Mind of Its Own

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When someone cuts the nerves from a squid brain to the skin, something unexpected happens with the tiny pouches of colored pigment, called chromatophores. Emily takes you behind this phenomenon, and how it can be explained and modeled on the computer with some surprisingly simple rules. [4:32]

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squid

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chromatophores, squid ink, squid skin, mitk12

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional
  • This video is hosted on YouTube

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