Planet Me

Last week we went to a Health Museum a few times. In this picture, we’re acting like blood cells in an intestine.

We also found a funny thing! It was where there was a wall with lots of pictures with buttons under each one. If you clicked a button (we picked one of a space alien) then it told you to go around to the left. There it would show you a movie about how the world would react to you. The space alien video showed a bunch of people screaming, and a police officer saying “Don’t eat me!” instead of protecting everyone. Two little boys ran away in the nick of time. At the end of the thing the alien stopped and said, “Mrrrrrrrn…”

Then on the second day, we went to a science room where they had microscopes. We looked at bacteria, but that was only one of the projects. There were so many of them! One of them was about blood cells, type B, A and O and Rh. We did things to see if the blood would clot so that we could figure out what type the samples were.

We also looked at fruitfly larvae. Mommy ripped his head off in the experiment. She was supposed to do that so that we could look at their chromosomes.

There was also one that was pretty scary, a little bit. It was an experiment where we had bacteria and no bacteria and we tried different soaps to see how well they would clean. We discovered that most of the handsoaps and cleaners didn’t work. And the film said that the ones that didn’t work actually made super bacteria that were harder to kill. The bacteria could resist them!

This was the most scientific room that there ever was in the world. We did more experiments than that, actually. We came back another day to finish them.

I loved that part of the museum! I wished there were more things like that in different places in the world. I got to see the reality of microscopic things and I got to learn how to use a microscope and how it works. It’s better than just thinking about what it would look like or not seeing it at all, but trying to see it with a bland eye. I saw it with a real microscope, with real bateria and real blood cells. It was really valuable because it would be hard to imagine how the things that live in your body that are microscopic would look like and move.

You know, you’re a whole planet. There are so many things living on you, that you can’t see. They are in your hair, in your body, in your skin. They are all over you. Little microscopic things. Kind of like planet Earth!

Camille

My name is Camille Sherman. I’m thirteen years old and absolutely love lizards. My favorite is the Komodo Dragon. Why? Because it is the biggest lizard in the whole wide world! Our family is traveling all over the USA and it's so fun!