Today, in class my students and I extracted #DNA from Strawberries. One thing I love about this activity is that kids start to realize that the food they eat has DNA in it. I get questions like: If I could eat this DNA, would I turn into a strawberry? It's kind of a silly question, but there is so much discovery happening! #MiddleschoolScience #Genetics #learning

This week, my students and I looked and observed at the following things under the microscope: salt, sugar, our own hair, human cheek cells, euglena, spirostomum, and onion epithelium. For the cheek cells, they had a choice of either looking at mine, or making their own slide and seeing their own cells. I love the energy and excitement of microscope week. Next week we finish up with students choosing what they want to observe.

#MiddleschoolScience #microscopes #ScienceTeaching