Tuesday, April 29, 2008

A Look Inside Our Eye

For the last few days we have been working on the Human Eye. We like to do all of the Hands-On Activties first, then add some written work and research to complete each section ofthe project.

So far we have made a large Layer Diagram of the Eye:

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A Picture of all 3 boys' work.....

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A Close-Up of Ratchet's Diagram....The Outer Eye

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The Cornea

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The Iris

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The Pupil

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The Lens and Retina

Adding the clear plastic to the Cornea really helped the boys visualize what was inside their eye without poking each other in the eye..... always looking for ways to enhance the learning experience while keeping it safe.

The next day we did a mini slide diagram of the Human Eye...

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All 3 boys did one of their own.... still not sure where I am going to add it in their binders so it is in a clear page protector for now.

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Close-Up of Halo's Diagram... showing the Iris and Pupil

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.... the Retina

Today we did some 3D Models of the Human Eye....

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Daxter's

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Ratchet's

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Halo's

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Side View... sort of

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Views of each side

The above projects came from Dinah Zike, Pocket Science - The Human Body & Scholastic's Easy Make and Learn Human Body.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Awesome!!!

Gerky said...

I think this project is so cool! I bet they learned a ton!

Juno

Unknown said...

Oh, how fabulous! Great job!! Thanks for sharing.

Vanessa said...

Oh wow. We did a human Body lapbook and did the easy to make learning human body book that had that exact thing in it. I like yours too. If you have that book my boys love the brain hat and learned so much from that.

Vanessa

Jacqueline said...

That is so totally cool! I just discovered your blog and I would love to have you join the Canadian Home Educators Blog carnival.