CELLS!

My students are learning how to use microscopes. It helps if you have fun stuff to look at. They thought it would all be prepared slides.

They thought wrong.

After the kids learned their microscope basics, I said, "Let's look at some other stuff around the room. Anyone want to donate a strand of hair?" I had to stop several girls from giving themselves haircuts. Every student in the room was ready to contribute FOR SCIENCE!

I donated a beard hair. Then I used some scissors to trim some dead skin over a blister from shoveling my family out of the last snowstorm.

I don't think anyone will forget that lesson anytime soon. Gross works.