Shell+Collections+-+Linnaeus,+Fibonacci+and+a+Little+Bit+of+Latin

=Conchologists!= Sort your bivalves from your gastropods. Discover why all scientists **MUST** meet Linnaeus and find golden numbers hidden inside shells. Along the way learn to speak some SongSchool Latin, decipher Latin codes in words we use every day, dissect a cockle and discover what you chew with every bite. Mess about with Mondrian, tell Fibs and string-up spirals...

//Carpe Diem!// Seize the Day!
Make a shell collection box and identify your shells... || ...use the resources in the display to learn a little Latin... || What does an adductor muscle do? Untangle the Latin... //adduco = to lead to.// The muscle pulls the valves (shells) together! Valves? //Latin... valvae = folding doors//. || A cockle jigsaw of bivalve body parts - discover what you eat when you pop a cockle into your mouth.... || Look more closely... Can you find the umbo? Umbo? Latin... //umbo = shield or knob//. A tiny, shield-shaped knob on a bivalve ...the oldest part of the shell... An **umb**rella? A shield against the rain! || Discover what a **variable** is... classify the fan shells according to colour and size...see how they **vary**? || Are you sure it's a barnacle....? || No room on the table.... || =Two Scientists a Conchologist needs to meet...=
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**Fibonacci**, 1170-1250
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Carl Linnaeus, 1707-1778
|| =Turn Maths into Art ...= =String up a Spiral:=
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Download the Instructions [|here]or pick up a pattern from The Allen Centre

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Measure and count the **Golden Rectangles.**..
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Paint your own Mondrian
|| =Salve Discipuli! Learn a Little Latin...= Seize the Day! Play //Carpe Diem...// || ...Happy Families Latin-style. || SongSchool Latin underway... ||
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Hogwarts Motto:
//Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus// Never tickle a sleeping dragon =Apparate! = =Flagrate! = =Protego! =

Untangle Hogwarts' Magic Spells... ||

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