We researched how to mummify a person and then carried out a dramatisation of the whole process. We also focused on functional writing to write clear instructions.
Following that we carried out an experiment to mummify an apple.
Please note no child was harmed or preserved in this process!
Z.B. was the unlucky Pharaoh who died and had to be embalmed in class. She loved every minute of it.
Step 1 .
C. and L. wash her thoroughly with water from the River Nile.
Step 2
A. and B. cut out her organs from a cut on her left hand side. Each one is placed in a canopic jar apart from the heart.
Step 3
Z.T. uses a hook up Z.B’s nose to remove the brain. She has to wiggle around to create liquid then pour the (now liquid) brain out of her nose. Acted out only !
Step 4
Now our mummy will be dried for 40 days.
Step 5
E. and C. have the lovely job of putting on the resin (glue) and wrapping her in linen strips.
Step 6
Finally P4 added the Scarab beetle amulet and said a prayer for our Pharaoh that we decided should be Cleopatra. We wish her well in the afterlife.
Science – Mummifying an Apple
We needed : salt, bicarbonate of soda, an apple, knife and bowls.
We carved a quarter of an apple in to a mummy shape.
We made two for our experiment.
One was preserved in natron (mix of salt and bicarbonate soda).
The other apple had nothing done to it.
We made predictions of what we think will happen to each apple.
Great concentration here by C. M. and Z. T. on their Egyptian numbers.
