In the name of Science!

Pungent smells and aromas that I don't quite have words to explain are exuding from my kitchen as I sit 15 to 20 ft away to type this message. My counters, window sills, and even a dark closet has science experiments awaiting to see if the hypothesis my children have written down will show to be true or false. We are trying to grow bacteria, grow a Lima bean, decompose bananas (not sure why, other than something about yeast being a decomposer), show vegetative reproduction (in which my dear son asked me politely that his plant was supposed to stay warm and could I not turn on the fan? this is the kitchen I might add!), and to produce turgor pressure (which is cells expanding). Not only are their aroma's from the kitchen and closet, but my back porch was a pond feeding frenzy last week. Sarah had taken four jars of pond water and placed cultures (rice, hay, pond soil, & egg) in each container to see which one would grow living organisms. Reaked would be a mild word for the smells that oozed from those containers (thankfully they were on my back porch and not my house). My husband might ask the Biology class just to come clean my refrigerator and they might find all kinds of biology experiments growing in there (not on purpose either! LOL). The pictures above represent the different experiments going on at the Roberson Academy just today! Who knows what will happen next? Biology and General Science have been stinky and yet interesting to study. Next year we will be experimenting with chemistry (we might end up blowing something up!).