Well, we did try to eat it, but actually, that wasn’t my primary goal.  This is a snapshot of our ‘jello cell’ model that the children and I made together as one of our Christian Kids Explore Biology science projects from the Illuminations Year 1 curriculum we’re working through this year.  It should have been made with lemon jello to provide better visibility, but…it snuck up on me, so we used red!

We’ve got a bit of everything in there, hard-boiled egg nucleus, lettuce endoplasmic reticulum, noodle mitochondria, carrot lysosomes, and the peaches are…ehmm….well, I can say that hands-on-learning does work fairly well, that was all without referencing our text!  We had a blast making it, and my two youngest (3 and 1) even thought it was tasty.  The rest of us, well, let’s just say that the lettuce and carrots left the jello with a distinctive flavour that didn’t blend well with raspberry!  Mmm..cytoplasm!

I think that Kaelynn (6) wants to write a post (well, dictate one) about the whole experience, so I’ll link up there if she does in fact go ahead with that . UPDATE: Ah, she says that she DOESN’T want to write a post, because the jello was ‘gross’, LOL.