We are wrapping up a year-long unit study on Oceanography. Mostly, we are following along the Boy Scout's merit badge work packet involving Oceanography, because that's easy, and kill two birds with one stone, right?
One of the last major projects of the Oceanography merit badge is to make a series of clay models of the three different types of coral reefs, identify and paint them.
Done, done, and done.
Yesterday we whipped up a quick batch of salt dough and the boys molded and baked their salt dough coral reefs on cookie sheets. It takes a solid 2 grueling hours to bake (at 200 degrees F - and seriously is there anything in the world that cooks at such a low temperature? I mean unless you throw a pizza in to eat 72 hours later. ANYWAYS), so we declared that the end of the school day and we would paint the corals tomorrow.
Well it's now tomorrow, so today we painted coral reefs!
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| Calen's reefs. Fringe (left), barrier (center), atoll (right) |
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| Camden's. Fringe (left), atoll (center), barrier (right) |
Sidenote: Calen has already completed the Oceanography merit badge 100% and has done this project before, so I gave him the option to do something else instead of this. But in his true easy going fashion, Calen said he didn't mind in the least doing this project again and that salt dough is super fun, so he repeated the project. He's such an easy kid.
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