By Claire M. Regan, SILive.com

Wearing disposable gloves and safety goggles, James Profeta plunked the specimen into a clear plastic cup. He was one of 21 students in Molly Davies’ science class at St. Joseph-St. Thomas School in Pleasant Plains who were dissecting sterilized barn-owl pellets to learn about the food chain. … Down the hall in Jane Nesci’s sixth-grade class, students were busy setting up make-believe restaurants to learn about the decimal system. Click here for full article.