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It was fun!! I am going to contact the Middle School Art teachers to find out if they do paper making as part of the Grade 7 curriculum. I would like to coordinate to do the background discussion and microscopic observation of different fibers. If not, then I might incorporate the paper making and fiber observation as part of the MS level science course I am designing with our physics teacher for next summer. The course will be called the Physics of Biology. We will divide the class into two groups that will meet simultaneously, one group in physics and the other in biology for 90 minutes. The groups will switch for the last 90 minutes. Photosynthesis will be one of the topics, so this morning's paper/fiber activities will be perfect for our course. I can do the discussions of trees/wood/fiber and the microscopy. The physics teacher can discuss tensil strength with the fiber strength activity, and I will probably do the actual paper making in my classroom (I have more sinks).