Satori begged to do another science lesson again today, so I figured this one would be a fun Sunday project. This is still from the second lesson “The Cell”. I prepared lemon jello and poured it into two different dishes – one round and one square. After an hour in the fridge, just enough to get them set a bit, I had Daddy re-read the lesson story while I prepared some fruit.
We held our breath when Daddy asked Satori which jello dish might be the plant cell. And she responded correctly, of course the square dish! The circular dish will be the animal cell.
We cut some green grapes in half to represent football-shaped chloroplasts and Satori slipped them into the cell membrane and into the cell.
Each cell got a big strawberry nucleus. Then we labeled the cell parts. Of course our animal cell didn’t get any chloroplasts. These are very simple cells and we could have made them a bit more intricate, but this sufficed for our 5 year old daughter. Besides it’s all the project called for anyway.
MMMm… don’t our cells look yummy?
Aren’t edible science projects great?
Right after this lesson, as I was uploading the photos to my computer, Satori rushed into my office and handed me this paper.
I love Science. (followed by a huge number)
We love our new science program R.E.A.L. Science Odyssey! The topics in Level One Life cover:
- What is Life?
- The Cell
- The Human Body
- Classifying Life
- Animal Kingdom
- Plant Kingdom
We just covered the human body as a unit study, so we might do some Animal Kingdom topics this summer yet. I especially think it would be great to do when we visit my parent’s Wisconsin farm, where it would be easier to find earthworms and snails.
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