By Kathleen M. Reilly. Extract DNA using a kitchen blender, rubbing alcohol, dish detergent, and meat tenderizer. Make a model heart and fake blood to pump through it. Make a model lung, a model ear, a working model hand, a fingerprint kit, an edible model cell, a cast of your tooth. "The scientific explanations are superb," says
School Library Journal about the articles that accompany the easy-to-do projects. Grades 5–12. Index. Glossary. Illustrated. 8" x 10". Nomad. 120 pages. ©2008.
Activities
- Make your own fake blood
- Make your own pumping heart squirter
- Make your own dissection lab
- Make your own model lung
- Make your own magic air ball
- Make your own tooth cast
- Make your own daily nutrition balance
- Make your own working model hand
- Try playing with muscle memory
- Make your own joints
- Make your own flexible spine
- Make your own decalcifying bone experiment
- Make your own edible cell
- Make your own dna extraction
- Make your own fingerprint kit
- Make your own homemade skin care products
- Make your own "seeing is believing" experiment
- Make your own reaction tester
- Make your own 3-D images
- Make your own indoor sensory garden
- Make your own optical illusions
- Make your own model ear
- Make your own sniffer tester
- Make your own inheritence model