Showing posts with label plant biology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plant biology. Show all posts

Saturday, 5 March 2011

Plant Science: Photosynthesis AND The Sandpit

Chocolate cake helps with all educational (and not-so-educational) tasks



Constructing the Photosynthesis Formula game. [Download this for free from Ellen McHenry's Basement site here]

Other similar free downloads here




All the best games involve eating sweets



Oi! You've just eaten a hydrogen!


Once you've completed the top part it's a race to turn your carbons, hydrogens and oxygens into glucose, oxygen and water.


Man may have risen up from the primordial soup, but he's only a few steps from returning to his evolutionary roots:
The secret stash of yummy things held in the treasure chest of pinkland.



Arrrrgggghhhhhhhhh (or something like that)



Haircut.

Soon.

Is all I can say.
Wellies, hoody and skinny jeans is obviously the new look.


By the way, I've found a home-made shampoo recipe here, on the Here We are Together blog.
Might solve that pre-teen limp locks issue.
Or maybe not.

I await the scowling verdict.

Thursday, 3 March 2011

Wednesday: Flowers, dinosaurs and holograms

We are going to dissect flowers.

Carefully.

i.e. not stab them repeatedly with the scalpel and slice them with the scissors until they are mashed.

Because if you do that CHILDREN you wont be able to see all the parts that I'm going to make you LABEL on an educational printout.

See. It's not that hard.




A trip to a hologram exhibition at a museum.


Spooky.

My personal favourite:


Quick, get the camera. Child doing something educational at museum!


Miss-not-quite-David-Bailey:



dd finds a new use for oven gloves:


Stripeysaurus on the loose:



Just humour your mother. You know it makes her happy: