Introduction
Overall, middle school students are social beings trying their best to fit in and belong. As they begin transitioning to high school, their social awareness increases, and they begin to seek relevancy for their present learning. They demonstrate this emerging sense of consciousness by enrolling in social, political and academic clubs/activities that promote these concepts. At home, their roles and responsibilities, (care-taking, cleaning), becomes more demanding, leading from dishes, to laundry, to washing cars. At this point, if not before, personal hygiene becomes a major issue, as they are bombarded with advertisements in the media and literature. This is where the relevancy of science as a subject to science as life-long practical learning is put into place.
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