DNA as an ornament?! Really?! How nerdy and strange and kidd-ish. Well, if that's what your thinking... stop! In science, a few weeks ago, we made DNA ornaments for our Christmas tree. Making them was wwwwaaaayyyyy more fun than sitting down and studying for a test. We were given wire, beads, a bag, and a cloth. Each of these tools each had their very own job that was needed in order to make the ornament turn out how it needed to look.
The cloth, was used to keep track of the beads when using them. The beads were small, round, and glass. So they could get lost and break really easily. The cloth, for me was really useful and I am glad I had it when using the beads. The bag was used to keep track of the string and the beads when not being used. Our name and period were wrote on the bags and then placed into a basket titled "Period 6." The beads, like I mentioned, we glass, round, and small. So they could easily break and get lost or as some students would've said, "ran away." The wire was thin, sharp, and curly. It curled up easily and was hard to keep straight when sliding beads down it.
This project was fun for me to do. I liked this project because my class and I got to touch and work with small beads and compare them to even tinier things. We referred to certain beads to certain parts of DNA and compared our DNA with real DNA. I think this project was very useful and should be used
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