SCIENCE AND WAFFLES
Fourth grade students at St. John the Evangelist School recently had full bellies while learning about animal and plant cells.
The students worked in pairs and made an animal cell with a round waffle or a plant cell using a square waffle.??
They spread Cool Whip on the waffles which represented the cytoplasm.??A banana slice represented the nucleus, red grapes represented the cell’s vacuoles and raisins represented the mitochondria.??
According to Fourth Grade Aide Beth Lane, “plant cells have a few more ‘parts’ than animal cells, so licorice was also used to create a cell wall around the waffle and slices of green grapes represented the cell’s chloroplasts.”??
Fourth Grade Teacher Linda Betro also explained that “basically, they constructed a cell and its various parts in hopes that they would understand the structure and remember the various parts each has.
Of course the fun part was that they got to eat them when they were done!”
Shown here proudly displaying their “animal cell” are Mary Moore and Kate DeVincent.