Chicken Mummification

DON’T FORGET TO INCLUDE PICTURES. YOU SHOULD INCLUDE PICTURES FOR EACH STEP TODAY!

 

VOICE LEVEL TODAY 2-3

 

  1. Clean chicken- all powder must be removed from inside and outside of the chicken. 
  2. What does your chicken look like? Be descriptive and insert a picture here. Today when we put the chicken on the table we didn’t take the powder off right away. We looked at the chicken and we said it looks like a miniature model of a mountain with snow all over it.  And without the powder it looks like a big piece of rotten food.
  3. What are the most significant changes since day 1?
  4. The changes that were really big from day one was that the powder is not changing coolers it is staying the same and the chicken doesn’t have any moisture. Also the chicken is more hard and the chicken has a change of color. Also the chickens smell has changed but what we think the chicken smells like is dirty dog and rotten eggs.
  5. Do you think the changes are realistic to the changes you would see in an actual mummy? Why or why not? We think that part of what happening to the chicken happens to humans when there mummified because we think the humans smell won’t be the same and the look of a human is different but the human and chicken both will have the same thing happen to them when we put the powder in them.

 

GET CHECKED, have you been taking pictures?

 

  1. Gather and prepare supplies for stuffing and wrapping your chicken (1 metal tin for mixing glue, 1 metal tin to keep your chicken in)
    1. What supplies did you gather today? Today we gathered glue spice and our gauze that we are cutting into to smaller pieces. We also got water
    2. What measurements did you use for your gauze? The measurements were 20 inches 17 inches of gauze.
    3. How are you making sure each group member is included today?  We are missing one person today so it works better. One person is cutting gauze and one person is mixing the glue and water and one person is documenting. Everyone has their own job that help the group.

 

  1. GET CHECKED, have you been taking pictures?

 

  1. Wrap your chicken
    1. How many piece of gauze did you need? 15 -30
    2. How much glue did you use? How much water did you add? For glue we used 5 and a half. Also for water we use 2 cups.
    3. Did you put anything into your chicken? If so, what and how much? We used saw dust and spices. We put about 3 tablespoons of cloves and 3 cups of saw dust.
  2. GET CHECKED, have you been taking pictures?

 

  1. Clean up all materials, store your chicken, wipe your table

 

  1. GET CHECKED, did you take pictures? Do you think you included enough detail in your responses above? Is there anything else you think is important to add from today? If so, write it below.

Chicken Mummification Day 6

Date:1-8-18

Process Day: Day 2                                                                                                             

  Group Roles (choose a different role than last time)

Materials Manager/Clean Captain:L

Chat Captain/Timekeeper:J

Picture Taker:D

Procedure Police/Reflector: S

 

Procedure:

Step 1: We Dumped the mixture out and off of the chicken in a tinfoil tray so that we could mummify the chicken some more and make a new mixture.

Step 2: We emptied out the tinfoil tray that the chicken was in and we put the mixture from before in the garbage and washed out the tinfoil tray with water and used 2 wipes to disinfect it.

Step 3: We then Mixed some salt and baking soda and also the scent Sage and ground nutmeg for a better scent and then we put the mixture together.We used about 3 pounds of salt and 3 pounds of baking soda to fill up the inside and outside of the chicken.We used about 1 tablespoon of sage and about 1 tablespoon of ground nutmeg to make the chicken from the inside and out not smell so bad as it would have with no scents.

Step 4: After that we buried the Chicken in the mixture in a CLEAN tinfoil tray so that the chicken could mummify some more.

Step 5:  We Put the chicken back on the windowsill so that it could get smaller and mummify even more than from before and dry out and dehydrate.

 

Photos of Us Mummifying a chicken:

 

Group Reflection:

Sight:It looks like its green purple and black and it looks like it has gills on the bottom.It also looks like it has a black and blue mark.

Touch:It feels like a DEAD raisin and it also feels like a rock depending on where you touch the chicken.

Smell:Before we put the scents on the chicken to make it smell better it smelled like a dead animal that’s been sitting for a year.

 

Chicken Mummification Day 5

Group Roles (choose a different role than last time)

Materials Manager/Clean Captain: L

Chat Captain/Timekeeper: S

Picture Taker: J

Procedure Police/Reflector: D

 

List the EXACT procedure your group followed today. Be as specific as possible.

Step 1. We Dumped the mixture out and off of the chicken so that we could mummify the chicken some more.

Step 2. Mix salt and baking soda together to make a mixture so we can mu

Step 3. Put sage inside and outside the chicken in layers to make it not smell so bad.

Step 4. bury the chicken in the mixture

Step 5. Put the chicken back on the window sill and wait for it to continue to mummify.

 

Photos (insert them into this doc)—> must include at least 5 photos.

 

Group Reflection (Discuss and answer these questions as a group)

 

Using the senses of sight, touch and smell, describe your chicken..How has the size changed? Color? Feel? BE AS SPECIFIC AS POSSIBLE!!

Sight: the chicken shrunk and Looks Purple black and it’s like red and it’s really shriveled up. “Kinda looks like a raisin” -L

Touch: Feels like a pretty hard raisin

Smell: It smells like dirty dogs

 

Chicken Mummification Day 4

Group Roles:

Materials Manager/Clean Captain:J

Chat Captain/Timekeeper:L

Picture Taker:D

Procedure Police/Reflector:S

 

Procedure:

1We took the chicken from the tinfoil tray and we took out the salt in baking soda around and in the chicken

2.Then we threw away the salt and baking soda that was inside and around the chicken.

We cleaned out the tinfoil tray and put the chicken in the other clean tinfoil tray.

3.We put new and fresh salt and baking soda inside and around the chicken(we used  2 pounds of salt and baking soda and 2 tablespoons of rosemary)the chicken.  
6. Then we put the chicken by a windowsill(A safe place for about a week and half while it’s mummifying)

Photos:

 

Group Reflection:

Using the senses of sight, touch and smell, we described our chicken..

 

Sight:It looks like an infected bruise and it also looks like an isolated chicken that’s been isolated for a million years it also slowly is getting smaller in a weird way.The chicken also looks more like a darkish red since we think that is when we know when the chicken is getting really dehydrated but we don’t know for sure.

 

Touch:It kind of feels like a snake or like a rock.It feels a little more squishy also than last time.All these feeling feel different depending on where you are touching the chicken.

 

Smell:The chicken smells like:Can Dog Food,Barf,and like a stinky dog,and stinky socks.

 

How much change do you think will occur over break?

We think it will be more dehydrated and dried out and maybe looks a little more like a darkish red because we think that chicken get red when they are dehydrated.We also hope it will smell better!One more thing is that we think the chicken might be smaller or maybe change the shape of the chicken?!

 

Chicken Mummification Day Three

Group Roles (choose a different role than last time)

Materials Manager/Clean Captain:S

Chat Captain/Timekeeper:J

Picture Taker:L

Procedure Police/Reflector: D

 

Procedure:

STEP 1. Use hands to rub the baking soda and salt mixture off the chicken

STEP 2. Get a spoon to scoop up the mixture INSIDE the chicken because you need to change the outside and inside of the chicken so you can dry both inside and outside of chicken.

STEP 3. Clean out the tin foil pan that the chicken was in with wipes.

STEP 4. Put new and fresh salt and baking soda (five pounds of each and two tablespoons of cinnamon) into and around the chicken.

Group Reflection:

Using the senses of sight, touch and smell, describe your chicken

Sight: A rock that just so happened to be in the shape of a chicken

Touch: Hard as a rock, also kind of stale and feels kind of scaley like a dried dead fish.

Smell: Dogs that were laying in the mud with a hint of cinnamon and An Exhibit at the Zoo.

 

How do you think the chicken will change between now and Thursday?

 

We think that it will change color some more and maybe become yellow!

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Chicken Mummification Day 2

Group Roles:

Materials Manager/Clean Captain:J

Chat Captain/Timekeeper:L

Picture Taker:D

Procedure Police/Reflector:S

 

Procedure:

1.We took the chicken with the salt and baking soda on the chicken out of the tin foil container and we left the salt and baking soda around the chicken in the tinfoil container.

2.We threw away the salt and baking soda still in the tinfoil container and then we cleaned up the other container that the salt,baking soda,and cinnamon mixture was in with wipes (By this time we saw some of the skin turning red and coming off of the chicken and that means that the chicken was slowly mummifying)

3.Then we put new and fresh salt and baking soda inside the chicken (we used and 2 and a half pounds of salt and baking soda and 2 tablespoons of cinnamon)and put in some cinnamon inside the chicken so the chicken wouldn’t smell so bad.We put this mixture also around the chicken for it to mummify some more.

  1. We put the chicken by the windowsill(A safe place for it while it’s mummifying.

Group Reflection:

How did your procedure today change from what you had planned?

We used way less salt and baking soda than we needed which was good it’s just that it was a change.We were supposed to use about 3 and a half pounds of salt and baking soda but it turned out we needed less.Also the other thing that changed was that we were going to wait a week until we changed the mixture up but instead we waited about 2 days and the chicken still has the same result as it would have if we did it a week later which is really awesome!

 

We used the senses of sight, touch and smell, to describe today’s experience.

Sight:The salt and baking soda kind of looks like a clay or glue mixture together.

Touch:The mixture has harden and kind of feels like a donut or a squishy thing or concrete depending on where you are feeling the salt and baking soda mixture on the chicken.

Smell:The chicken smells like cinnamon since we used than in our baking soda and salt mixture to make the chicken not smell so bad.It also on another part of the chicken smells like a dog who hasn’t showered in a long time!

 

How do you think the chicken will change between now and Monday?

We think it will change because more of the chicken will be red which is good because that means it’s mummifying and also it might smell a little bit in the room that we are mummifying the chickens in because it’s mummifying right now over the weekend but since we put in cinnamon in the baking soda and salt mixture hopefully it won’t smell as bad.The last thing is that I think when we take off the mixture of the salt, baking soda, and cinnamon the texture of the chicken might change and let’s hope that’s for the better but it might be for the worst.

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Chicken Mummification Day One

Group Roles:

Materials Manager/Clean Captain: L

Chat Captain/Timekeeper/Reflector: D

Picture Taker: J

Procedure Police:  S

Procedure:

 

  1. Our teacher bought store bought chickens and materials for our process
    2.We Opened the bag with the chicken with scissors and then put the chicken on a tinfoil tray

3.We were prepared and put on face masks and also gloves and also safety goggles.(YOU WILL WANT ALL OF THESE THINGS IF YOU ARE MUMMIFYING A CHICKEN-TRUST US)

We cleaned off the germs of the chicken with rubbing alcohol we used about 30 ounces of it and used  the rubbing alcohol to rub inside and outside so that the chicken doesn’t smell as bad and we also put on about 2 tablespoons of cinnamon to also make it not smell so bad

  1. Then we took 15  paper towels to dry off the chicken inside and out

and then we put  in 3 pounds of salt and 3 pounds of baking soda mixed together to fill up the places where the innards were and we filled that up fullway.

5.Then after we were done  putting the chicken on the tinfoil tray we put salt and baking soda around the chicken

6.After we put the tinfoil tray with the chicken on the windowsill and leave it there for days.

 

Photos from our experience:

 

How did your procedure today change from what you had planned?

 

We Forgot to add in scissors-to open up the chicken. Masks-so we don’t breath in air that is gross and not clear. Cinnamon- to make it not smell so bad. Rubbing alcohol- To rub the chicken inside and out and make the chicken not smell so bad because there is bacteria on the chicken which makes it smell so bad.  Goggles- To protect our eyes. Gloves- To make sure our hands don’t get really gross and icky and dirty.

 

Using the senses of sight, touch and smell, describe today’s experience.

 

Sight: We saw other people doing different things so we could learn from them.

Touch: We touched the chicken so we could mummify it and we used our touch to make sure we were doing the process correct.

Smell: We used our sense of smell to make sure that we had enough cinnamon so the Chicken didn’t smell as bad.

 

How did group roles support and/or challenge your group?

 

No because we didn’t fight and we were working together and compromising  in the process.Example:We were combining different ideas and thoughts and were helping each other out when confused with something and we kind of switched our roles halfway through  mummifying

Because about this picture different roles worked better for some people than other people.

 

Are we going to do 40 days or just 20 or something low like that?

What will happen on winter break?

 

Are we going to do 40 days or just 20 or something low like that?

What will happen on winter break?

How long will the process that we are doing  take?

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