Our Egg Experiments!

Experiment #1: Why Doesn't A Mother Bird Break Her Eggs?

We managed to put 18 dictionaries on top of 6 egg shells, a lot of us in our hypothesis thought that this would be impossible but we have since found out it isn't!

Conclusion: The arc-like shape of the egg helps support the weight of the dictionaries. The shape of the egg is the reason it doesn’t break when a bird sits on it.

Experiment # 2: Can you Make An Egg Bounce?

We loved doing this and found out that you can!! Once again a lot of us thought that this was not possible.

Conclusion: The vinegar removes the shell but leaves the membrane or skin. The water stretches the membrane which is thick and can be shown to students. This allows the egg to “bounce.”

Our Discovery Days with Room 7!

On Tuesday and Wednesday Room 7 and 14 had some Discovery time. We had a choice of lots of activities and we have listed them below for you to see. We got to choose what we wanted to do and we had an activity checklist to fill in as we went. We made a comment and rated ourselves (1-5) against the key competency of self management (we had to make sure we got on with the task at hand and we had to complete 6 activities over the 2 days) on these checklists.

This was so much fun as you can see on our faces in the slide show above.

1. Make your own magnets
2. Make puppets with coloured paper and ice block sticks
3. Stuffed animals, mammals and reptiles
4. Stick things bug craft
5. Oobleck
6. Scientific experiments
7. Magnetix
8. Lap-tops
9. Robotics kits
10. Board games/puzzles

Room 14 - leave a comment and tell me what your favourite one was and why!