Fun with Pathogens

I made some cornstarch clay and we made dangerous viruses, bacterium, molds, and fungi.

Black Death

Strep

Rhinovirus

Bread Mold by Emma

Bread Mold by Annika

Ringworm

The whole dangerous lot of them!

After we finished, Annika and Emma decided to make some less-dangerous creations. This is a little town. The big tower is a guy's house. The spaghetti noodles are the stairs and they go in a spiral.  The big yellow part is another home--according to Annika it's "an infinite home." The yellow guy in the middle is basking in the sun. His house has the red roof. I love it.



Emma's creation. There's no story here, but it's really cute. And sparkly, but not like a stupid vampire sparkly. Cool little girl sparkly.

And I didn't come up with the idea on my own. It's from the Penn State Center for Nanoscale Science. I didn't have any pipe cleaners (I know, what kind of homeschooler am I?!) so we substituted twist ties on the strep and spaghetti for the rest. It's not furry or twisty, but it worked pretty well. Tomorrow Harry is going to write little paragraphs on why the shapes are important. He doesn't know this yet, but I'm sure he'll be excited.