Tuesday morning my kids walked into a crime scene in the 5th grade science room. A poor rabbit lay in the middle of a very small forest- he had tragically lost his life. The animal's habitat had been taped off with "crime scene do not enter" tape. The students have spent the last 2 days trying to solve the crime - what animal did the killing and what scavenger cleaned up?
Well it turns out the rabbit was something my cooperating teacher had found in her back yard over the summer. When the students found out it was real they either thought it was really cool or really disgusting.
Today one of my students said to me, "You know if you touch a dead rabbit you can get rabies. Like if I touched that right now I would have rabies."
I guess I hadn't thought of rabbits as being a real threat when it comes to rabies. And certainly not a rabbit that's been dead for 8 months. But you can never be too careful these days, I guess!
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