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First week highlights: murdered teddy bears, fun with puppies, trail cameras, and perfect rectangles

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It was a great first week and a half back at Tok School. Classes have been off to a crazy but wonderful start! It's great to see so many familiar faces, exchange stories, and see that my 8th graders have become highschoolers! Updates: Biology and Physics started off with a "bang" (figuratively, I promise) this week in our introduction to science units. As I set up every year, a "crime scene" was constructed in the lab and the students used their knowledge of the scientific method (observing, making a hypothesis, experimenting, and analyzing and writing their results) to solve the mystery. It was a little bloody, but fortunately no actual teddy bears were harmed in the making of this lab :-). To see if you can solve the crime for yourself, see the full lab here! Biology class also started on our moose and wildfire project, which we will update you on more this week. For this project, we are studying the relationship between wildfire, plant succes