Ancient Egypt

This afternoon we started note taking about the daily life of a group of people in Ancient Egypt. We are learning to find main ideas, quote sources and put notes in a mind mapping programme called, Mindnode.  From there we will write a draft report in our offline "brick" draft book. When this has been conferenced we will use this information we have gathered to create an animation comparing this person to life of a similar person today.

Mummify a Chicken! Part 2

As part of our look into how culture changes and influences us we timetravel to Ancient Egypt.
Next minute.... the chicken has lost his head....

A Mummified Chicken: Part 1

Here is a picture of the chicken we are mummifying, two and a half weeks down the track. Thankfully, no rotting flesh. Remy, Ben and Jonti helped unpack the natron mix, clean, dry and weigh it.

Our headless Pharaoh Larry (name as voted by the boys) started at 1.599 kg and is now approximately 300 grams lighter. We know that humans are up to 60-70% water so we think the chicken may lose 700 grams eventually.
We then repacked it with a new mix and Larry is now sitting happily back on the display. We will look at him again in three weeks. Who wants Larry for the holidays?

Note: Always remember to wash your hands thoroughly after unpacking a mummifying chicken and then repacking it in its burial chamber!

We will post movies and a full write up of this later. Also check out our amazing "mummmy" poetry in each boy's blog. A visitor to our class exclaimed our thoughts were, "amazing poetry."