How to Disect a Flashlight

Appearantly Da Vinci was one of the first, if not THE first to take animals and people apart and draw their many pieces to learn about them. We were studying Da Vinci today, looking at his pictures he made, from the Mona Lisa to his drawings of the bone structures of the arm. Callie is FASCINATED with medical stuff. So, she was begging for this. And, rather than disect a living thing, we decided to disect a flashlight. First we played musical chairs around the table each drawing the flashlight in whole from three different angles, then we took it apart and drew the insides. It was awesome. There were no rules or regulations, just free discovery. Usually they are not allowed to touch the flashlight because it wastes batteries, but today they were inthralled to touch it, examine it (how it works), push the buttons and draw what they saw. The Da Vinci method works great with kids. Next time, we may disect an orange or something. GREAT!!