This week highlights: 8th grade investigating with the skills of paleontologists and geologists examining fossils and stratigraphic drill core samples as part of their unit exploring Evolution; an 8th grade student hand feeding some meal worms to our class pet bearded dragon, "Curtiss"; 6th graders investigating examples of natural resources as they began their new inquiry unit into the impact of increasing human population on the Earth's natural resource deposits, as well as a couple of 6th graders doing some independent microscopy inquiry on their own time.