Exploring Human Anatomy and Physiology ~ week 1

This has been a great week ~ the kidlets and I are both loving this...

We bought the journals (I got the Junior Journal for DD since she's only 7) and they really like using them since they are used to notebooking...

This week so far, we've looked at the Ancient Civilizations and how they viewed the body.

The kids learned some great vocabulary words like hypothesis, theory, phlegmatic, and sanguine... We used some homemade flash cards to help with learning their meanings...

We discussed some historical greats in medicine ~ Hippocrates and Aristotle and added them to our timeline journal... they each had to write 3 sentences about what they had offered to medical history from what we had learned in the book..And we used "Usborne Book of Famous Lives" to look up some other info about each of them...

We talked about the theory of spontaneous generation and compared it to the Big Bang theory...

We started a new family read-along on Galen

and watched the "Magic School Bus: Human Body" (more times than I wanted too *LOL*)

The best thing about the week was the experiment the kids got to do using an apple, salt, and baking soda...

First we peeled 2 apples, then we mixed up baking soda and salt         

 then we placed the apples in the bowls and covered one with the salt/baking soda mixture, and left the other exposed to air in a different bowl...

We'll be able to see the results next week (hopefully) ... the kids can't wait since they have already written out their hypothesis...