Monday, April 27, 2009

A Day of Science

Today we had fun with science at Biology Day! A biology teacher who teaches high school level biology classes to homeschoolers has her students plan a series of classes to teach to younger kids once a year. It was so fun! The kids rotated between twelve classes all focusing on different animal classifications. The highlights were the frog dissection (the kids got to dissect their own frogs!) and dissecting the owl pellets. Tanner was very impressed with the mole skull he found in his pellet! What a fun, educational day! Hooray!

Insects

Mollusks

The Ins and Outs of Amphibians

Tanner was happy to watch, but decided not to actually touch the frog!

Hoofed Mammals from around the world
These girls were so cute. They had costumes and accents to teach about where the hoofed mammal came from!



Worms!

Reptiles

Tanner already loves science and today just affirmed his desire to be a scientist!

Hunter had fun too! He actually did a good job listening to most of the classes. The last few classes we decided to take a walk-hence no owl pellet pictures!

4 comments:

Becky said...

I would love to send my kids on some of the fun field trips you create for your kids, so cool!

Ruth said...

That is so cool! What a wonderful day! The not touching the frog thing for Tanner must come straight from Grandma! What a really great day and I can't wait to hear all about it from Tanner and Hunter.

Lost in Jello said...

I am so impressed by how you homeschool your boys. You do such a great job at it and so many fun things too. I wouldn't have touched that frog either. :)

Jenn said...

I got to distect a frog in high school, I can't imagine seeing it when I was 5. How incredible!