My son was looking through a book and saw a picture of DNA. I told him what it was, but am having a hard time explaining it to him. He thinks that when he was a baby, he slid down the DNA to see what his blood looked like, and then he was born. I want him to know what it really is, but I really cannot think of a way to simplify it and still have it make sense.
2006-08-28 06:33:46 · 20 answers · asked by Krista B 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Preschool
I would use legos to demonstrate how DNA are used to build every living organism.
2006-08-28 06:56:07 · answer #1 · answered by Manny 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
try legos, build a simple animal, tell him that each strand of dna is like a block, singly they arent really anything but put together a certain way like the blocks they make something, then change the animal ( like from a dog to a giraffe ) to show him how changing the dna can change how the thing turns out
2006-08-31 16:15:29 · answer #2 · answered by feather_63057 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure he will survive without knowing the meaning of DNA for some years now. At least until he is 16 and finds himself on a date in the back seat of your car. Plenty of time.
2006-08-28 06:37:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you really think it's important, get some toy blocks, put them together and explain that dna is like the blocks only people are made of dna not blocks.
2006-08-28 06:37:43 · answer #4 · answered by doktordbel 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try using Kool-Aid.
Show him that if you put in red Kool-Aid, it turns the water red and makes it taste like cherry.
If you put in purple Kool-aid, it turns the water purple and make it taste like grape.
That's the way DNA works, different combinations cause different results. Granted, it's not scietifically absolutely correct but for a 3 year old, it's probably about as close as you need to get.
2006-08-28 06:42:13 · answer #5 · answered by Big Ed 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually, he came up w/ something in his understanding that actually makes sense in a way. but go to ther library and ask for books geared to a 3 year old about heredity and DNA. they will have something. and cherish his "understanding" that he "slid down the DNA". it's totally precious.
2006-08-28 06:39:12 · answer #6 · answered by Sylvia H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have one of those cube puzzles you could show him how the same blocks make different pictures when they are combined in different ways. DNA is made up of the building blocks of life, and combined differently make all the different people.
2006-08-28 19:47:43 · answer #7 · answered by Scrapbookspice 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
know those little balls that you can connect, try taking a bunch of those and connect two and say something like these two are what made you have blue eyes but if it had been this one (a different color) you'd have had brown eyes. of course you'll need to read a book about dna, and chromosomes, and such if your really that interested in explaining it realistically
2006-08-28 06:38:55 · answer #8 · answered by scarlet_bat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make cookies and explain that DNA is the ingredients that go into a person
2006-08-28 08:22:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anastasia 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ok DNA is a unique set of codes that make you who you are they are a gift from parents passed on to their children and they are the reason your eyes and hair are the color they are tell him they are so small you cannot see them but they are there
2006-08-28 06:39:57 · answer #10 · answered by glass_city_hustla 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋