Hey, readers!

After April break, we started. . .

Drumroll please. . .

CAPSTONE! If you don’t know (you should!), capstone is a HUGE project that all fifth graders in Scarsdale do. Basically, you pick a topic by doing a bunch of surveys, do a LOT of research (and by a lot I mean A LOT!), and  make a big presentation, typically a trifold, and present it at the end of the year.

I am doing animal testing. I don’t support it, but I still want to learn more about it. I have found some really great information. For example, did you know that over 12 million animals get tested on EVERY YEAR?! Also, over half of animals tested on are mice, and only 25% are rats. The term lab rats should be lab mice! I found some really cool information from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTPvow3E_VE. I learned what animals get tested on from this cool picture:

I interviewed Lola Hernandez, a employee at Lush. Lush is a non-animal testing company, which I support. Be sure to leave a comment about what you think of animal testing!

See you next time!

Jade