As the culminating activity for our year of high school biology, we decided to do a fun and corny Biology Comedy Show. We performed it during my son’s amoeba birthday party. You can take a look at the amoeba cake we ate, the live amoebas we looked at through the microscope, and the Lego bacteria my son put together.
My husband put up a green screen behind our Biology Comedy Show, so that we could superimpose some amoeba footage that my son had captured earlier. The whole family was involved in the show. You will hear sounds from the audience who was watching, especially during the charades section of the show, where my son acted out various topics from biology. The whole show is less than five minutes, even though it took us a year to accumulate all the jokes.
If you enjoyed this comedy show, I recommend you go watch our other corny comedy show: Ancient Rome Comedy Show. We performed it years ago when my kids were younger.
If you are a homeschooling family who is studying biology, I highly recommend joining the Unit Study Treasure Vault, which has tons of biology videos in it. I filmed everything we did for our high school biology in our family, and I show you how to modify the topics for younger siblings to enjoy.
Tags: Apologia Biology, biology, comedy show, Homeschooling, science
Susan, I am home schooling my 8 year old grand daughter and would like to start using the idea of projects with her- by that I mean selecting a topic and making notebooks (I’ve heard them called lap or lab books????- you can see I know very little about them as I don’t even know what to call them! LOL), drawing pictures, filling in captions, etc. Is there somewhere I can go for directions and/or templates to use? any websites that you like? ANN EDWARDS
I can bring some of my kids’ notebooks to the next Mom’s Night Out, if you’ll remind me in an e-mail the day before. (My e-mail is castlesusan@gmail.com). I can show you how I do notebooking with my kids. I also have a video workshop called “Making History Notebooks,” that shows you different ways to use notebooking in your homeschool. It’s here: http://susanevans.org/MakingHistoryNotebooks
I also have a Unit Study Treasure Vault, where I have collected tons of links to free notebooking pages all over the internet, under their topics. It took me hundreds of hours to put together, and you can find the Vault here: http://susanevans.org/UnitStudyTreasureVault
It looks really funny, indeed. Cannot imagine how the amoeba cake looks like. LOL
The amoeba cake was decorated with candy, and the kids loved it!
This is so much fun! Have to admit, I was kind of dreading teaching my kids high school biology, but you have certainly shown us how to make it interesting — I know my kids would learn a lot this way too.
Thanks so much for linking up at Finishing Strong!
Teens love doing comedy shows! It helps them learn the material, enjoy it, and perform it with friends!
Susan!! This is awesome! I love the creativity .. what a fun project!!
Thanks! We had fun making up all the jokes!