Is That Your Mummy ?
Fifth graders were surprised to find a mummy all wrapped in white bandages leaning against the wall in the art room when they came to class Tuesday. As they took turns unwrapping the mummy they discovered written on the "linen" strips 25 different mummy facts. Just as the mummy's identity was about to be revealed it came to life and gave everyone a bit of a fright.
Mr. Warren our volunteer mummy was soon exposed. After everyone stopped laughing, he explained how the students will take an apple and carve a face into it and mummify it. They will create their own recipe for "natron", the material the egyptians used to mummify corpses. Then they will bury their apple heads in the special formula. (Thanks to parent Nina Glynn for providing the ingredients for our "natron" recipe.)
To see how much water and juice their apple contained they will weigh it before it is buried and then weigh it after it has been preserved by the "natron".
Fifth graders were surprised to find a mummy all wrapped in white bandages leaning against the wall in the art room when they came to class Tuesday. As they took turns unwrapping the mummy they discovered written on the "linen" strips 25 different mummy facts. Just as the mummy's identity was about to be revealed it came to life and gave everyone a bit of a fright.
Mr. Warren our volunteer mummy was soon exposed. After everyone stopped laughing, he explained how the students will take an apple and carve a face into it and mummify it. They will create their own recipe for "natron", the material the egyptians used to mummify corpses. Then they will bury their apple heads in the special formula. (Thanks to parent Nina Glynn for providing the ingredients for our "natron" recipe.)
To see how much water and juice their apple contained they will weigh it before it is buried and then weigh it after it has been preserved by the "natron".
They will form a mummy body and attach the preseved head.
Then they will construct a mummy case from papier-mache and paint it with authentic Egyptian designs. Finally their mummy will be placed in the case and shipped to the fifth grade classroom to be part of the Egyptian Museum exhibit.
We will be working on this project for several weeks. We will keep you posted as we learn all about MUMMIES!
Then they will construct a mummy case from papier-mache and paint it with authentic Egyptian designs. Finally their mummy will be placed in the case and shipped to the fifth grade classroom to be part of the Egyptian Museum exhibit.
We will be working on this project for several weeks. We will keep you posted as we learn all about MUMMIES!
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