When it Works!

Last night over dinner seemed like a good time to finish our science for the week. The kids and I had covered the science topic "cells" and our assignment for the next day was to make a cell out of jello, dried beans and a marble or grape. Daddy likes science, he'd probably get a kick out of this, I thought to myself. And he did!

We had already poured the gelatin into a small plastic bag (to represent the cell membrane) and now we needed to add the nucleus (marble) and organelles (dried beans). We took turns going around the table adding a small handful of organelles and then turning to the person on our left and explaining what we had just done or idenitfying the new part. We continued around the table, with the nucleus and by the end of the conversation, learning had occured! Conversation skills, listening skills, and parts of cells being identified.

A day ahead of schedule we finished science. And a new technique for learning and sharing what we had learned was tried. It worked!!