Children are taught their entire lives to steer clear and rid themselves of germs. But on Sept. 24 at Montessori Magnet School they learned how to multiply them – in the name of science, of course!
Cynthia Houser’s students first took “samples” from around the classroom – swabbing tape on pencils, a desk, the stairway railing, a cubby, the floor, soap dispenser and a door handle – and then introduced what was collected to homemade petri dishes. In four to five days the third-graders will examine their experiments under the microscope to see what grows!
Don't worry, they all washed their hands afterwards!
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