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Week 31: April 18-22, 2002

This week's slideshow highlights: Students in each class from 6th - 8th grades celebrated Earth Day on Friday by picking from a variety of seeds to plant and take home, from all kinds of annual and perennial flowers to herbs and vegetables; students in 7th and 8th grade just watched the documentary film, Kiss the Ground, which teaches about success stories from around the world where famers and ordinary citizens are using plants to help sequester carbon from the atmosphere and promote healthy regeneration of soil; a few pics show some of our 7th & 8th grade students preparing our worm compost bin so our JHS scientists can compete with Mr. Cherry's Intermediate grades scientists to see who can get their worms to convert the most food wastes into compost--students will record data over the next several weeks of how much food wastes they are also reducing from instead going into landfills; 6th graders began their integrated Science and Maker Space Inquiry unit on the anchoring phenomena--How can we create a fully renewable energy society? by working together exploring various forms of energy and energy transformations via a series of 6 hands-on energy stations. Thank you for checking in with us this week:)