Sunday, September 20, 2009

We've got science "in the bag"

As part of Jeffrey and Josiah's Classical Conversations science memory work this week, they were to learn six parts of an animal cell. Julie sent me a cool website that showed how to make an animal cell using these ingredients....

We improvised a little and used a date instead of a plum and gummy worms instead of ribbon candy because...well...we had those things and I didn't want to go to the store!

So here is our animal cell with the six parts the boys had to memorize:
1. nucleus (the date)
2. cytoplasm (jello)
3. vacuole (jaw breakers)
4. mitochondria (raisins)
5. cell membrane (baggie)
6. golgi bodies (gummyworms)

The directions say you can eat it when you're done....but YUCK why would you???!!! But hey, it was fun!

4 comments:

Granna said...

You mean the cells in my body look like that??????

I bet the boys had a blast putting that together--all that oooey-goooey stuff would be right up their alley.

Texas Ex said...

This is the way to learn!!!
Bless you, Jennie, for teaching your children at home.

Julie said...

Yeah for the cell. I tossed ours, too. Because it looked gross to me to eat, too! While no one was looking, away it went. What fun!

Jen said...

Oh what fun! We just had to draw our animal and plant cells:( Would you mind sharing the site with the directions?