In December the kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade students all kicked off the month with a presentation from some exceptional teachers: our 5th and 6th graders. The older students presented their Human Body iSkinless projects, each one going in depth into a different body system. The whole month was filled with expert visitors engaging in all kinds of exploratory scientific learning with the students, from roleplaying the adventure of a virus up against the immune system to using ultraviolet light to identify the presence of bacteria. The Hands-On Museum team came in to do a fascinating workshop with our 3rd-6th graders. Students from EMU came and worked with our 1st and 2nd graders to write creative (hilarious) fiction based on the human body. Literature ranged from Darwin's Origin of the Species to Kipling's How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin. The work that was done was far-reaching and interconnected. You can see a map of how it all fit together here.