This week's slideshow highlights: 7th grade students maintaining our new in class worm composting bin--students are learning which foods are best for creating vermi-compost and keeping data of how much mass of food wastes is being kept from being tossed into the garbage and then into landfills; an 8th grade student feeding some horn worms to our class bearded dragon, Curtiss; 8th grade students conducting experiments investigating the variables of speed and mass on energy transfer of gravitational potential energy to kinetic energy during vehicle collisions with our brand new SEPUP physical science curriculum as they explore their unit anchoring phenomenon, "How can we design safer cars?"; 6th grade students conducting an experiment learning about conductors vs insulators used in transferring electricity within electric circuits; 8th grade and 6th grade students cooperatively demonstrating the NGSS Science & Engineering Practice of "Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information" by presenting their experimental results to their classmates; 7th grade continued with their Sexual Health Education Unit Lessons this week with special emphasis on "Being Up-standers" and "Allies" when confronted with real-life situations of unhealthy influences and discrimination towards others.