Just complete science FUN!!
Each year at our school, our students who are enrolled in either Anatomy and Physiology or Chemistry are required to carve a pumpkin with a theme that corresponds to the class that are taking. As you would expect, some of the students go all out and bring in some really amazing creations, while others just do the bare minimum. But, it always turns out to be a great day, and all involved have a lot of fun.
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| The library transformed! |
All members of the science club stay after school one day and transform the library into "The Haunted Library"!!
The librarian is a great sport to allow us to do this to her library!
After the library has been decorated, all of the participating students bring in their carved pumpkins to put on display. Next, you turn on the creepy music and turn on the ghosts that fly across the room, and you have a haunted library!
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| What did they do to my skeleton? |
During the day, all students in our school are given the opportunity to visit our haunted library. Each student pays $1.00 for admission. And since the students are allowed to leave class (with teacher permission) to visit the library, you can well imagine that every kid in school is begging their teacher to take them to the library. All of the money we raise goes to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. I am proud that this year we were able to donate over $1000 to this wonderful organization!
Here are some of the pumpkins that were created for this year's haunted library. I saved my favorites for the very last!
I will start with the one that my own daughter created! Have you seen the movie, "Up"? She carved the house from the movie into the bottom pumpkin, and add three helium balloon pumpkins on top. On the left, is the pumpkin with the info from the periodic table about helium.
This one was created by an anatomy student. Each bone in the hand and arm was clearly and correctly labeled. Very cute!
This student did a great job carving a brain!
It's water with a bat-smile!
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| With my flash.... |
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| In the dark.... |
A model of an atom....
Carbon Dioxide....
We had two
Einsteins!
A few of our special effects....
I loved this "ScArDy" Cat!
Very clever!
This student carved a pretty good heart!
And now for my very favorite! This student did an amazing job carving a human fetus, and then placed it inside Mom's tummy!
I hope you have enjoyed this post. It takes an incredible amount of work to pull this off, but the students loved it, and we raised so much money for a very worthy cause! Win/win for all involved!
Happy Teaching!!
That is a great haunted library! Love it!
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