C'est finis! I let the dishes cool, then packed them in boxes and brought them to school with me today. Seriously, you can take ANYTHING on the subways.

The students, working in groups of four, designed their own experiments to investigate bacteria. A few groups are comparing the bacteria from the girls', boys', and teachers' bathrooms, another group is comparing the effectiveness of different kinds of cleaning sprays, one group is testing the bacteria in students' sweat versus adults' sweat, another group swabbed girls' and boys' bellybuttons, and another group is comparing the bacteria found in bottled water to that found in school drinking fountain water. The results promise to be interesting...