Tuesday, April 26, 2011

The Science of the Plagues (for Passover)

The Peabody natural history museum together with the two local jewish day schools (Ezra Academy and Southern CT Hebrew Academy) hosted a program to teach young jewish children about the science of the plagues of passover. There were live frogs, animals pelts, blood "making", a hail machine, crickets and cricket noise makers and more. Zachary and Zoe had a great time and learned something too. At the end we went on a hike and learned that poop can tell us a lot about the animal that made it!
Zoe checks out a cricket through the microscope.
Zachary and Zoe check off the plagues they have already learned about so far.
Zachary's oragami heart.

Making blood: water (plasma) red dye, rice (platelets), red beads (red blood cells), white beads (white blood cells), sprinkles (nutrients). Very cool!

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