This year Nate was on the swim team at the high school. It was a good year for him and he worked hard and really improved throughout the season. He is thinking of joining a club team for the rest of the year so he can continue working at his swimming.
Nate was assigned to make a 3-D cell for his biology class. Thankfully, I remembered making a similar project in high school days, and I remembered that I made an awesome cell that the teacher put on display for the whole year. On this note, we worked together to make his cell out of sugar water and string wrapped around a balloon. For the nucleus we added food coloring to the sugar water and covered the little balloon with red string.
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| Nate and Mom working on his animal cell. |
Inside the cell for all the parts he included the red string circle (nucleus) with the popped balloon still inside (nucleolus), uncooked ramen noodles with fuzzy balls glued to the top half (smooth ER and rough ER ), styrofoam circles painted pink (lysosomes), blue milk caps(vacuoles), rotini pasta glued together (mitochondria), fuzzy balls glued to paper (ribosomes), foam circles glued in an uneven stack (golgi body), and a yellow glittery fuzzy ball (centrosome).
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| The finished cell |
When Nate brought in his project his teacher told him it was the coolest cell project she had ever gotten. He did a great job and I am very proud of him.
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| Nate and Mom with the finished cell. Notice that Nate is standing very straight to show that he is taller than me. |
2 comments:
That is a really cool model. It now makes sense why you wanted the string recipe... Too bad it isn't edible :)
That is so weird that he is taller then you!!!
What a great project. Glad it's you and not us any more. Keep it up, Nate. Love Mom & Dad, Grandma & Grandpa
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