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4th Grade State Fair

The kids did such an AMAZING job at their State Fair (which was held on Friday, May 1st).  I can't believe how much time, effort, and creativity goes into this project, which includes projects from Social Studies, Science & Language Arts.  I guess I should also include COOKING because the food was awesome!!!!

Edible ANIMAL CELLS

Every once in awhile, I manage to find a food lesson to incorporate with the material and content we are learning in Science.  We've had Oreos to learn the layers of Earth as well as the Moon's phases and pudding, crushed cookies, and gummy worms to learn about the different horizons of soil.... Now students have had a chance to create an edible ANIMAL CELL with bread, peanut butter, and various toppings!  Here are the different parts they learned about:

The bread/crust - Represents the cell membrane
Peanut Butter - cytoplasm (next year, I'm using jelly as cytoplasm is a jelly-like substance... why I didn't think of that right away, I don't know....:)
Cookie - Nucleus
Sprinkles - chromosomes
Life Savers - vacuoles
Skittles - Mitochondrion

Needless to say, I think this science lesson was a hit!