The hardest part of any project is to provide good, quality lessons for all grades. What I suggest is for you to read through all the suggestions and then advance or simplify as necessary! If you have a great idea -- please send it to me. And check back often for new ideas!!

Language
1. Read the book Chickens Aren't The Only Ones and have a discussion on the different animals that come from eggs.
2. The Cadbury website has put together an awesome Teacher Packet for use in your classroom..........click here for the pdf.
3. Have your students read The Chicken Who Wouldn't Hatch by Lisa C. Ernst and then have then write their own version of the story.
4. As a group enjoy the book The Most Wonderful Egg in the World by Helme Heine and then have your students discuss and write down their talents and also the talents they see in others.
5. I really really enjoyed Eggbert - the Slightly Cracked Egg by Tom Ross. I think your students will enjoy it as well!!
6. Have your OLDER students visit National Geographic's "The Great Dinosaur Hunt" and keep a journey of all they learn as they journey through this great "egg"sperience!!
7. Write a poem, a haiku, a limerick, or acrostic verse about eggs.
8. Make up a story about the day in the life of a egg!
9. Take the words The Great Egg Roll and create as many words as you can.
10. Cut out lined paper in the shape of an egg and have your children create a journal of your Egg Roll Day!
Math
1. Use a pattern to make a bird & a nest. Put a number on the bird. Have the students add that many eggs to the nest.
2. Create graphs on how your students like to eat their eggs. (Scrambled, fried, over easy, sunny side up, etc)
3. Visit the Egg Math website for a great math idea!!
Science
1. Supply each group of 3 or 4 with 2 feet of masking tape, thirty drinking straws and a raw egg. Their task is to find a way, using the resources they have been given, to drop the egg from a height without it breaking. Give the groups ten minutes to come up with a prototype of their solution and then have a go at testing them out over a balcony, off a step ladder or out the window! Obviously the winning group(s) is the one which doesn't break its egg!

2. Where's the shell? - an experiment in chemical reactions and osmosis.

Materials:
1 small jar or glass
1 raw egg
vinegar

Procedure:
Place the raw egg into a small jar. Pour enough vinegar over the egg until it is completely covered. Watch the egg for several minutes. You will notice that the shell on the egg appears to bubble. After three days, remove the egg from the jar or glass. Gently remove the shell while you rinse it under cool water. If the shell does not come off completely, return the egg to the jar or glass. covers the entire egg, and try to rinse the egg the next day. Examine the egg and have the students write their observations. Bubbles will immediately form on the surface of the egg and will increase in number over time. The bubbles are carbon dioxide gas. After 24 hours the shell is gone. The membrane of the egg remains. The chemical name of vinegar is acetic acid and egg shells are made up of calcium carbonate. There is a chemical reaction between the vinegar and the shell.

Next, fill a jar with corn syrup. Place the egg in the syrup. It will probably float. Observe the egg ever few hours and notice the changes. Keep the egg in the syrup for three days. Remove the egg and rinse it under cool water. Examine the egg and have the students write their observations.

Next, place the egg in a jar of water. Keep the egg in the water for three days. Remove the egg. Have the students examine the egg and record their observations.

3. Floating Eggs - an experiment with buoyancy

Materials:

1 raw chicken egg for each group
2 large jars and a popsicle stick for each group
1 box of table salt for each group
1 pitcher of water for each group

Procedure:
Fill the first jar about 2/3 full of water
Fill the second jar about 2/3 full of water and add about 3T of salt. Stir until the salt is dissolved. Keep adding salt and stirring until no more will dissolve.
Place a raw egg into each jar.
Have the students record their observations

By adding the salt to the water you increase the density of the water. The buoyant force is equal to the egg's mass

4. Eggstra Strong Eggs - Try to see how much weight a raw egg will hold

Materials:
4 raw eggs
4 soft drink bottle tops
lots of large, heavy books
plastic tablecloth for the table
piece of poster board 12" by 12"

Procedure:
Weigh the four raw eggs. Cover the table with a plastic cloth. Place the eggs in a bottle top. Place the four bottle tops in a rectangle, about 8" by 6". Put the piece of poster board over the eggs. Begin placing books on top of the poster board. Record how much weight the eggs hold before they break. Compare the weight the eggs held to their actual weight.
5. Did you know one ostrich egg can make an omelette for 10 people. The eggs weigh 3 to 6 pounds and they would take at least 45 minutes to hard boil. Visit the Iowa Egg Council for other great egg facts.
6. Make an egg bounce and even MORE great egg experiments found HERE!!
7. Take the time to visit Jerrie Cheek's Egg Page. Lots of Great Links!!
Technology
1. Visit the "Great Egg Answer Hunt" created by Mrs. Miller at Arthur Elementary School. Great Online Scavenger Hunt!
2. Take the time to visit "Chickscope". An awesome site by the University of Illinois. Make sure you check out the "yolk of the day".
3. Using Inspiration/Kidspiration, create an "egg"ceptional "egg"perience.. Free 30 day trial available here -- INSPIRATION   KIDSPIRATION
4. Create PowerPoint/Hyperstudio presentation (including pictures) of your Great Egg Roll!

5. It really doesn't get much better than this -- visit the Hershey's site for great "egg" games!

6. Visit Hot Potatoes and have your students create an ONLINE QUIZ of Egg Trivia.
7. Visit Puzzlemaker.com and have your students create an Egg Roll HTML word game. If they create a great one -- then send it to me and we will post it on this site.
8. Visit the Cadbury site for kids......lots and lots of fun!!
9. Using a digital or regular camera -- make a collage of your Great Egg Roll Day! Scan your pictures and print them out on T-Shirt transfer paper as an added memory for your kids!!
10. Using Inspiration or Kidspiration -- have your kids create unique "I AM AN "EGG"-CEPTIONAL KID" web highlighting their hobbies or talents! (Thanks to Laurel Osterman from Alexander Street School in New Jersey for this idea!)
11. Download some of the coloring book ideas and save them as bitmaps and transfer into Kid Pix for your students to color. Or better yet -- let them create their own egg pictures!!!

 

 

 

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