The Orange Project
Students make a brain out of an orange
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One of the oranges students brought from home
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Materials needed: A razor blade, four colored toothpicks, six raisins, one gumdrop, two jellybeans, and an orange
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Students placed raisins on toothpicks and then put them in the orange to create the eyes.
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Students cut out the Corpus Callosum
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Students then put the cerebellum (gum drops) in place on the back of the orange, followed by the four raisins on a toothpick, symbolizing the brain stem
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Students then placed the different colored toothpicks at each lobe of the orange brain, representing the Frontal (red), Parietal (orange), Temporal ( green), and Occipital (blue) lobes
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Students then cut out a portion of the orange and placed the Thalamus (green jellybean) and the Hypothalamus (the red jelly bean) inside
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The final product
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November 4, 2016
Students in Mr. Bliven’s AP Psychology class created a brain out of an orange to help them learn the structures of the brain. Students were told to bring an orange from home and follow the directions that were given to them on a piece of paper. They also needed to answer questions on the function of each part of the brain. After students made the brain, they had to memorize what part of the brain each object represented and show Mr. Bliven that they had learned the brain structures.