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Everything ESL

Everything Esl: Science Experiments With Eggs

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Find lesson plans for four different experiments to introduce the Scientific Method to ESL students. Find out the benefits of using science experiments in the ESL classes.
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Cengage Learning

Cengage Learning: Project Based Learning: Egg Drop Experiment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are challenged to design a way to drop a raw egg from varying heights without letting the egg break. Creative thinking and evaluation of results are critical to the project.
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Other

Steve Spangler Science: Egg in the Bottle Trick

For Students 3rd - 8th
This resource provides information and demonstrates the egg in the bottle trick.
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Other

Port Discovery Children's Museum: Stem at Home: Bouncy Egg Experiment

For Students 3rd - 6th
Would you believe us if we told you we could make an egg bounce without breaking? Check out this experiment. It requires just three ingredients and five easy steps to learn how to bounce an egg.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Physics: Bill Nye: Eggs Speriment

For Students 9th - 10th
Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing science straight to your fingertips. Become the commander of your own learning experiences as you take part in this density experiment.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Fallen Arches: The Surprising Strength of Eggshells

For Students 6th - 8th
Arches have been used for structural engineering since ancient times. This experiment tests the strength of a naturally occurring arch shape: the shell of an egg. How much weight do you think an eggshell can support?
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Measuring the Speed of 'Light' With a Microwave Oven

For Students 9th - 10th
In this experiment, you will measure the speed of light using a microwave oven, some egg white, and a ruler. This short project proves to be an extremely interesting choice for a science lab, with pictures for illustration, and thorough...
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Science Fun for Everyone

Science Fun: Egg Drop

For Students 4th - 6th
Learn about inertia with this egg drop science experiment. Try not to crack too many eggs!
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Bill Nye

Bill Nye: The Eggs Files

For Students K - 1st
Try this at-home science experiment to learn why it's hard to crush an egg with one hand.
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Bill Nye

Bill Nye: Eggs Speriment

For Students 1st - 5th
Try this at-home science experiment to learn if salt affects the way things float.
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Museum of Science

Museum of Science and Industry Chicago: Online Science: Drop Eggs Into Cups

For Students 3rd - 8th
Step-by-step illustrated instructions showing how to drop four eggs into four cups without touching them. Demonstrates the concept of inertia according to Newton's first law of motion.
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Museum of Science

Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Activities: Make an Egg Bungee

For Students 3rd - 8th
Step-by-step instructions, with photos, of how to prepare an egg for a 'bungee jump' using a plastic bag and elastics, and a yard stick to measure the distance it falls each time it is dropped. The activity investigates the Law of...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Chickscope: The Journey Begins

For Students 3rd - 8th
Journey with the chicken egg, from formation to hatching, and learn about its embryology.
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Science is Fun

Science Is Fun: Egg in a Bottle

For Students 6th - 8th
An air pressure experiment that shows how to get a hard-boiled egg into a glass bottle that has a mouth smaller than the width of the egg. A lit match is used in this activity.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Everyday Science of Eggs [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A lab where students can investigate eggs and what happens to egg whites after they are beaten. Lesson plan includes teacher background, standards, and a procedure for students to develop their own experiment.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Dragonfly Tv Try This!

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A collection of simple experiments your students will enjoy! Each activity only requires a few household items, and will certainly spark the creativity in young scientists!
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PBS

Pbs: Eggs Plore Science by Making Meringues

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Practice the scientific steps of making predictions, observations, and discoveries while making this simple meringue recipe.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: The Great Egg Drop: Relationship Between Gravity, Mass and Density

For Teachers 6th - 8th
An interesting experiment in the relationship between gravity, density, and mass. Students must devise a way to drop a milk carton containing two raw eggs off a roof 50 feet high, without breaking the eggs. They then write a scientific...
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Other

Kiddy House: All About Chickens for Kids and Teachers

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This comprehensive resource features everything you want to know about chickens. Students and teachers will "cluck" when they explore this site.
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Pennsylvania State University

Penn State University: Embryology in the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Come and learn more about how to incorporate embryology into your classroom. This site features tons of information about the embryology of chickens.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Lab: Egg Citing Science: Acids and Bases

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
An simple experiment that will allow students to observe the effects of acids and bases on an egg and to then discuss what these observations tells us about larger issues, like acid rain.
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Building a Bungee Jump

For Students 3rd - 5th
Students are asked to create a bungee jump that will protect a hard-boiled egg from breaking. A force sensor is needed to measure the push/pull forces on the egg. Data is inserted into force-time graphs. After completing three...
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Other

Diver Ciencia: Fisica Recreativa

For Students 3rd - 8th
Try these fun physics experiments. Find out how you can make an egg float in water or if an egg is raw or cooked without breaking its shell and many other fun curiosities.
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Bryn Mawr College

Serendip: Investigating Osmosis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Brief text summary of what students learn in the Investigating Osmosis lab along with links to download Student Handouts and Teacher Preparation Notes in PDF or Word formats. Students design and run an experiment to demonstrate osmosis...