So, I have missed a few chapters in posting on my blog. :) I know you all were just waiting on the edge of your seats to see more of our human anatomy science class pictures! ha!
As you know, we are nearing the end of a Exploring Creation Human Anatomy
for Elementary age kids...we have LOVED our science this year! We have had great fun with 2 other families meeting weekly to do projects and experiments.
for Elementary age kids...we have LOVED our science this year! We have had great fun with 2 other families meeting weekly to do projects and experiments. Here are some pictures from the chapters we did in March and April!
Chapter 10: The Brain and Nervous Sytem
Chapter 11: Your Senses
{this is a great hands-on activity that my friend Michelle gave me, you set up an "ear" for the kids to crawl through!!}
Once inside the ear (under our table) the kids found a hammer, stirrup, a shell with water for the cochlea, an extension cord for the auditory nerve, a picture of an anvil, a homemade drum for the eardrum. We talked about each piece and what it does in our ear.
Then for our sense of taste we had a taste test!! This was lots of fun!
For our sense of sight we made these diagrams of the eyeball with construction paper and ziplock bags for the lens and "clear" layers in our eyes.
And then we dissected a cow's EYEBALL!!! Yay! Much thanks, again, to Jennifer for walking us through the dissection. I think this was my favorite dissection so far, we could see SO many of the actual parts of the eye, it was amazing!!
Up next: our experiments with the chapter on BACTERIA!! :) Isn't science FUN??
I got this curriculum to use with my kiddos next year--LOVE these ideas. I haven't looked through it too much, are these projects that the book suggests or are you finding them on your own? If you have any sites that have aided in your study I'd love to know them. I'm not sure I'll be brave enough for any dissecting though . . . I wouldn't describe myself as squeamish, but the eyeball may have made me cringe a bit. ;o)
ReplyDeleteJanna, there are projects listed with the curriculum - I think dissecting a cow's eyeball is an idea for that chapter from the book. :) But a lot of these ideas we have just done on our own...my friend we are doing this with has family with a cattle farm, so we had "free" and easy access to all cow parts...we probably would not have done all the dissections otherwise. But, I have to say, the dissections have definitely been one of the highlights for the kids!! :)
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