This week's slideshow highlights: Several pics of 7th and 8th graders conducting the last stages of their STEM Fair Projects--testing their hypothesis and collecting-analyzing-interpreting their data; Several pics of 7th and 8th graders participating in other students' STEM Fair Project experiments as test subjects; 7th graders conducting a lab to collect evidence of plants giving off oxygen during photosynthesis in high light conditions and using oxygen during cellular respiration in low light conditions; 8th grade debating the tradeoffs of human use of plastic, aluminum, and glass for single use drink containers as part of their new unit, Chemistry of Materials; 6th graders exploring a computer simulation to investigate the different types of lithospheric plate interactions and movement as part of their Geologic Process unit; and a pic of a rare sighting of our class catfish, Leroy, in our aquatic Lake Michigan ecosystem. Thank you for checking in with us this week:)