Disappearing Peeps!

Welcome!! We are experimenting on the effects of various liquids on Peeps! We are testing water, vinegar, apple juice, soda, and laundry detergent. The students are recording the changes they see each day.

Day One

Day Two

almost completely gone!

Egg Drop

Each of my students created an invention to protect a raw egg from a 9 foot drop. They were SUCH creative little kiddos! In an unprecedented turn of events, all but one egg survived the fall. This has SERIOUSLY NEVER happened before in six years of teaching!

Check out some of their projects:

Egg Drop

As a part of both our Forces and Motion unit and our Egg Celebration, we did an Egg Drop. The students created an invention to protect their egg from harm as we were going to drop it from 10 feet. The students were so excited to see the results for both their own egg and their classmates eggs. Out of 19 eggs that were dropped, only 3 broke all the way open (two cracked only). This was the most successful Egg Drop in my five years in the classroom.

 

Eggs, Eggs, Eggs

After reading What's Growing Inside This Egg?, we discussed what kinds of animals come from eggs. Not just chicks come from eggs! I loved this FREEBIE poem from Welcome to Room 36!

To go along with our Egg Experiments, I found these Scientific Method cards on Classroom Freebies.

This is my favorite Egg Experiment! I found it via Pinterest and was pumped to do it with my kids! It actually three experiments altogether: The Naked Egg, The Shrunken Egg, and The Exploding Egg.
Our Naked Egg:

 Our Shrunken Egg:

 

 Pre-Exploding Egg (back into water to "plump up"):

Exploded Egg: (popped like a water balloon)

 

We also completed The Average Egg experiment. Students tested their hard-boiled eggs in many ways: weight, circumference, rollability, appearance, and volume. We had discussed all of these topics before, except for volume. It was fun to see their reactions and predictions to a graduated cylinder. The students rotated around the room completing the experiment.

Blowing Eggs

Have you ever blown out the inside of an egg? It basically looks like snot and the kids LOVE it. I poked a hole in each end of the egg (using an unbent paper clip) and let the kids start the process. It takes a lot of air to get the white and yolk out, so there were a lot of red faces in my classroom :) Then, we dyed the eggs. They will last longer since they aren't raw or hard boiled, but hollow inside!