Gaby came home the other day with an exciting science project. He has to make a skeleton model of the spinal column for Science class…its due in two weeks! He started to tell me his ideas and my eyes widened as I thought of all those little bones, ligaments and muscles we would have to pull together for those back bones! I asked him why the teacher assigned him the spinal column, and he said that HE actually picked it out. I said, “that is a very hard thing to copy, create and make work…you know, actually move with muscle pull and all.” He said, “Come on, Mom, why are you so negative. Why don’t you encourage me a little more?” I apologized for my pessimism and got to thinking, and thinking, and thinking, but I still doubted. Finally, I asked him if he could change his project to a knee joint or arm/elbow joint trying to explain all the while why the spine seemed so difficult to make. We decided on a leg/knee model. He checked with the teacher who also agreed.
One kid already did a head and shoulders skeleton model out of styrofoam. Gaby said it was great!
It’s gotta be done in two weeks…any suggestions?
4 comments:
you could've stayed with the spine and sent an emergency email to Uncle Russ!
Got any chicken bones? How about a dead squirrel?
Seriously, though, what about going back to the spine and using noodles and rubberbands?
Wow! LindaSue thinks like her mom! Kind of frightening, right?
Do you have any play dough? Or make up some with salt, flour and water, then shape and mold it around something with a hinge for the knee.
Actually, Karen, the knee/leg is just as hard to do as the spine! I'll say a prayer that somehow it will get done, and done well.
Karen, are you still reading the comments from this blog? If so, I talked to a teacher yesterday about this project. She wondered if you could use toilet paper tubes hooked together to be movable? (putting elastic around so it can be bendable maybe?)She was going to try to think of more overnight. I'll let you know.
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