I am an eighth grade Science Teacher and we have been in school for 4 weeks now. Every week a different class gets to watch the BP eat a live mouse. I have four classes, so they have all watched now. They absolutely love the experience and it has done wonders in the amount and quality of work my students have given me during the week! I feed the snake on friday and on tuesday only the best behaved class from monday gets to handle the snake. This has been a tremendous success. For any teachers out there, a classroom pet is a great assistant.