We took a field trip with the Seeds of Faith group(http://www.sof.homeschoolchoices.com/) to a health exploration center. There was a lot of information presented but the kiddos seemed to enjoy it. All but my oldest volunteered several times. Even Boo answered some of the questions correctly! Then they had an opportunity to "explore" the human body!We are finishing our school year up next week. I look forward so much to summer vacation as much as the kids are. We have a packed summer with a Major Cutie's 5th birthday, a vacation to Tennessee to visit family, a trip to Port Austin for the 4th of July, a Boy Scout camp weekend, a trip to Missouri for an Ethiopian get together, a trip to the west side of the state for Michigan Adventure and an overnight trip on a WWII ship. On top of that I think my oldest is joining the swim club in Lapeer for the summer. So see, I can't wait to have my "school" obligations done and have time to wake up in the mornings and move out into my flower gardens!
These are actually pig lungs but I guess are quite similar to human lungs. This lady used the hose on the left there to inflate the lungs. It was really neat to see. Below are lungs that were injected with toxins that are found in cigarettes. Did you know about 4,000 chemicals go into one cigarette?
This display was cool to the kids because you could push buttons to make all sounds of gross intestinal noises!
My daughter is standing against this ruler in front of the nose. The ruler shows how far your germs spread when you sneeze. Now I don't know if this is in direct proportion to the size of this nose or if all our sneezes produce this type of distance! Yuck!
