Teaching Across the Curriculum

Although I missed the window of opportunity to do this with my students this year, I definitely plan on teaching across the curriculum next year. To coincide with the Egypt unit in social studies, there are a myriad of science experiments and activities that use natron to "mummify" an apple or some other fruit. Upon learning about Egypt, my students bombarded me with questions about how mummification works, scientifically speaking. It made me sad that I couldn't rearrange my plans to somehow incorporate it :( A well written procedure for this activity can be found here