Asexual Reproduction.........what?

   It's time to find bacteria hiding at Mt. Blue Middle School. Students will swab an area of their choice and try to grow bacteria in a petri dish filled with gelatin. We'll have a control variable petri dish along with the independent variable petri dish. Students will become familiar with terms in designing experiments that are valid. Hopefully the control variable will produce nothing, while the independent variable will show bacteria asexually reproducing, using the gelatin as food and shelter.