This is week two of doing the curriculum and I can tell you, we all really love it! We do anatomy/physiology twice a week. The kids and I read the materials and then they have notebooks where they do different projects. It's really neat!
Last week, the kids were learning about the history of anatomy and how people did things differently when it came to, well, anatomy! We also learned (even though we already knew) how God knew a lot more about health than the people that lived during the New Testament times. For example, He knew the disinfectant properties of wine. Just read about the Good Samaritan., "came to him and bandaged up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them: (Luke 10:34). He knew the healing properties of alcohol even before it was know by others.
One of the types of people we talked about were the Ancient Egyptians and how they would mummify the bodies of those who died. They thought when they came back for their second life, they would need their bodies again!
We did an experiment on two apples showing this theory. Here's what we did:
We peeled two apples and put them in two separate bowls. We then mixed 1 1/3 cups of baking soda with 2/3 cups of salt. We covered only one apple with the mixture. This represented what the Egyptians would have done with the dead bodies. We left the other apple untouched to show what would happen if we hadn't covered the apple with the mixture. We then waited a week and look what we found:
The one untreated rotted. I know it doesn't look like much, but it's pretty nasty! The one that was covered was almost preserved. The kept it from getting really rotted. Pretty neat huh?
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