Homeschool Science: Unit 5 - Burgess Seashore

Day 1 - Chap 21 Jellyfish (Art, snack, youtube)
Day 2 - Chap 22 Sea Anemone (Report form)
Day 3 - Chap 24 & 25 Seahorse (Mini-book)
Day 4 - Chap 23 Sea Cucumber(Mini-book)
Day 5 - Super Science Concoctions (Pgs 85 -87) Mystery Marble

Day 1
SNACK - We made a jellyfish snack with grape jello and sour gummy worms. Make the jello according to package and then put in bowls. After they have jelled in refrigerator for 4 hours, carefully flip on plate (may have to use a butter knife to gentle pry from bowl). Then add some sour gummy worms for the jellyfishes' tentacles. We actually made this twice. Ya think I would have taken a picture at least once. Maybe we can have the snack again :).
ART -We used markers to color on round coffee filters. Then we sprayed with water and let it dry. (It doesn't take long to dry at all if near a sunny window.) Then we (mom) cut strips of tissue paper and we stapled them around the ends of the coffee filter. My husband cut small squares from a cereal boxes to put underneath the jellyfish so that it would spread out more when we hung from the ceiling. We used a brad to fasten the square and ribbon to the coffee filter. Then we tacked it to the ceiling.
We also viewed some videos on you-tube. We especially liked the one from national geographic site for kids. Jellyfish info and video


Jellyfish

Day 2- Simple Report Form for Sea Anemone
We got much of our info from this site Sea Anemone .


Sea Anemone

Day 3 - We made a 4-flap mini-book with a cover for the Seahorse out of colored paper. My son drew a picture on white paper and glued it on the front cover. We wrote 1 question on each of the flaps and then wrote the answer for each question under the flap.