Here are several more hybrid animal science projects. Mixed in with the pics of the projects is one of me posing with a torat, the cat/tortoise hybrid that one of the students made to accompany his display. I have two left to grade, both of which were done as PowerPoint presentations. I can upload those to Google Docs and post the links, but I’m leery to do so. As Lord Acton observed, “Power tends to corrupt; PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.” (buh-dum-ching!)
All in all, this assignment was a success. If I’m teaching science next year, I’ll definitely have to repeat this one.
Tags: Weird Science Projects
Back in early February, Mark CMG, the owner of Creative Mountain Games, posted a link from his Grymvald Gazetteer to David Maliki’s inspirational “The Zoological Times Table“. I eventually got around to printing out the table. Then I assigned a different hybrid animal to each of my 5th graders along with instructions about how to complete a zoological science project about the assigned animals.
As I get the projects graded and pictures taken of them, I’ll upload the pictures to the site here, which explains the surrounding pictures. Clicking on a picture embiggens it. (I just set a personal record for the number of times I’ve used the word “picture” in a single paragraph.)
Tags: Weird Science Projects
