While studying the Ancient Egyptians we have been learning about the mummification process! We looked at the different stages the Ancient Egyptians took to mummify a body. To get an even better understanding we became Ancient Egyptians for our topic lesson and used a similar process to mummify a tomato. We had lots of fun using different resources to create a mummified tomato. We made predictions about what we think might happen and back in Ancient Egyptian times they would have waited 40 days however, we will waited about 2 and half weeks to see our results!
To 'mummify' a tomato we did the following:
1) Cleaned the tomato (inside and out)
2) Scooped out the seeds
3) Cleaned the inside with sanitiser
4) Filled the tomato with a mixture of salt and baking powder.
We also have a 'control' tomato which we didn't fill with salt/baking powder. We compared our control tomato with our mummified tomatoes and the results were interesting to say the least!
We then wrote instructions of the steps we took in our literacy books.
Have a look at all our pictures and the instructions we used to see if you can see the steps we took!
