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Eyes on the Prize: Horseshoe Crabs, Ommatidia and the Nobel Prize!

2012. Kreamer, Sharon W.  The Tatnall School, Wilmington, DE, USA. 15 pp.

This activity directs students in an internet-based information gathering activity aimed at helping them learn various details regarding the location, structure and function of each of the horseshoe crab’s (HSC’s) ten “eyes”. Students will add the information they gather to a diagram of a HSC, identifying the location of each type of eye.