Egg Fun

To begin our first eggs-periment, we observed our egg was white, shiny, hard, bumpy, oval, and it sounded like plastic when you tapped it.  We predicted what might happen to the egg in vinegar overnight...
It will get stinky.
It will get black and rotten.
It will grow mold on the shell.
It will crack open.

After a couple of days, the egg was squishy, yellowish, fuzzy  or soapy looking (egg on the left).  The one prediction that was right--It was stinky.  When Mrs. Brockhaus picked it up and dropped it, it bounced!  The shell had disappeared.  All that was left was the skin under the shell.  We talked about how a chemical reaction had taken all of the calcium away.

We cracked both eggs after we all touched them.  The egg that had been in vinegar is at the top of the picture.  The 'normal' egg is on the left.

We checked out part of an ostrich egg shell that Mrs. Brockhaus had from a previous year.  It was hard, smooth, and very thick.

Wednesday, we cooked eggs of several different styles and compared their differences.  Here's a graph of our favorite kinds.

After reading Green Eggs and Ham, we made green eggs.  Most of us thought that they were delicious.

Here's our little yellow duck.  He was really funny because when we flipped him over, he became a little Easter bunny!