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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Egg Experiments

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Two experiments where students investigate with uncooked eggs. In the first investigation, they explore how to remove the eggs outer shell while keeping the rest of the egg intact. In the second, students attempt to shrink the 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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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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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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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Eggs and the Equinox

For Teachers 5th - 8th
In this guided inquiry activity, students work to address the myth, "Eggs will balance on end on the equinox." Students to come up with their own procedure to test this question and perform the experiment.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Using Egg Drop Activity to Promote Critical Thinking and Analysis Skills

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this multi-lesson hands-on inquiry activity, students will develop their critical thinking skills by designing and constructing an apparatus that will permit an egg to survive a nine foot fall. Given limited materials, they will...
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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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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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Hunkins Experiments

Hunkin's Experiments: Get an Egg In/out of a Bottle

For Students 9th - 10th
Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. An easy-to-do example includes using air pressure...
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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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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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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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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Egg in a Bottle

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Examine how differences in air pressure affect objects with this classroom experiment.
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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...
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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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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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The Tech Interactive

The Tech Interactive: Tech Tip: Data Collection: Reflecting on Your Design [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource explains why data collection is a great way to make informed improvements to a design, and how to do it. Data can be quantitative - such as a measurement of distance or time - or qualitative, such as an observation of...

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