What do chicken mummies and octagonal prisms have in common? They are both getting a lot of attention from the Fifth Grade these days…Since November, we have been testing out the mummification process by mummifying our own chickens. After several months of drying out our poultry peers with kosher salt, we broke out the oil and spices and gave the chickens a nice massage, then wrapped them in gauze. We still have to put the final touches on the sarcophagi, recite from the Book of the Dead, and make some treasures for them to take with them to the afterlife before we bury them on Mike’s Trail later this spring.
In math today, students were working together to determine patterns in the relationship between the number of sides a shape has, and the number of faces, edges and vertices the corresponding prism will have. They worked in pairs to examine different types of prisms.
