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The fifth-grade students learned some interesting hands-on stuff, but the teacher was a little … worried<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Casey Turner watched as two buckets of fresh pond water \u00e2\u20ac\u201d full of writhing bloodworms, mosquito larvae, water bugs and other aquatic wildlife \u00e2\u20ac\u201d were heaved into the center of his fifth-grade classroom on a recent Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The fifth-grade students learned some interesting hands-on stuff, but the teacher was a little … worried. Casey Turner watched as two buckets of fresh pond water \u00e2\u20ac\u201d full of writhing bloodworms, mosquito larvae, water bugs and other aquatic wildlife \u00e2\u20ac\u201d … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-cY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":227,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=227","url_meta":{"origin":804,"position":0},"title":"5th-graders get their hands dirty","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"June 15, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"It's good to see kids continuing their science learning in the summer ... and actually getting engaged in it to the point where they like it. 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