An Eggs-traordinary Experiment Part II- The Results

So I am sure you are dying to know the results of our experiment. Your curiosity will be satiated momentarily. We had to make a few changes in the process due to impatience and available materials on hand. ( We were too impatient to wait for the second container of eggs to get used up.)

Revised Materials List.


8 Eggs
One 18 egg carton trimmed in half
Books- lots of them, with at least one large enough to cover the whole half egg carton.



Procedure

1.) In one of the egg carton place an egg in each corner. The empty spaces should make a cross. In this carton place the egss on pointy side down.

2.) In the other carton, place the eggs the same way except this time place the eggs pointy side up. (this will be a secondary experiment to see if one side of the egg is stronger than the other)

3.) Place books one at a time on top of the eggs. I stopped at eight pounds worth of books(weighed on the bathroom scale) but the eggs showed absolutely no signs of stress and I'm sure they could have taken a lot more weight. The pointy side up eggs did seem to have a bit more stress though. ( I am basing that on a sound I heard as the last few books were added, that I did not hear from the other eggs).

Here is a closer shot so you can see the books are resting on the eggs, not one the carton or any other support.


Also, I thought of other subjects you could pull into this and you would have a pretty complete unit study. All three of the books I suggested before have counting opportunities in them, especially the Dilly Dally book. Dilly Dally and the Nine Secrets is actually a counting book and a very sweet story. It can be a great window to studying water birds as well. Art opportunities abound as well. Art history can be covered with an introduction to Robert Audubon(The Audubon Society) and you can even design feathers or dye and design egg shells. There is also the good old egg shell mosaic to try with slightly older kids.