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1. List the different classes of animals that reproduce by laying eggs. Use Google to find the answer

2. Use this web activity to come to a conclusion.

Underline the word that means egg layer: Oviparous OR Viviparous

People are:

All mammals are viviparous. True or False

If you say false, give an exception:

3. Some people will tell you that eating eggs is bad for your heart. Is that True or False.

Support your choice:

4. Pays Eggs are an example of eggs as art.

In what country did this egg art begin?

What is the tool that is used to apply the wax to the egg?

I noticed that one color is used in every egg design given here. What is the color?

5. Solve this egg math problem.

6. Egg Anatomy - write a fact for each term

Albumen

Air Cell

Shell Membranes

Shell

Yolk

True or false - The shell of an egg is solid, keeping everything inside the egg.

7. Check out these experiments to make Naked Eggs 1 . Naked Eggs easy

What items do you need to conduct it yourself?

What gas is given off in the reaction?

Name another example of this gas being given off. (Hint - take a deep breath. Exhale. Any ideas?)

Think about it.

Identify another liquid that could be used for this experiment.

Form a hypothesis about the outcome of a two day soak in that liquid.

8. Which President initiated the White House Easter Egg Roll tradition?

Why?

9. What are Faberge Imperial Easter Eggs?

10. You have been invited to read 3 books at your local library's story hour. It is Spring.
You would like to read some books about eggs.

What web resource will you use to find the books?

How can you narrow your search to eliminate cookbooks and ornithology textbooks?

List three appropriate books.

11.Candling an egg has 2 purposes. They are:

12. Fact or Myth You can stand an egg on its end only on the Vernal Equinox.

13. Avoid having egg on your face when it comes to egg idioms.
Use the Cambridge Idiom Dictionary to look up egg idiom. Use one in a sentence.

14. Take the tour of the commercial egg production and process farm. What happens to the left over egg shells?

15. A hen lays one egg a day. If the eggs are fertilized they may hatch into chicks. Do the chicks hatch one day at a time?

16. Eggshells Could Help Power Hydrogen Cars - How?

Challenge:

Many recipes call for hard cooked eggs. Write step by step directions to make them.

Observation: The First Step in the Scientific Method

Nest Watch - citizen science project

"Egg"tensions:

Conduct thisengenderment. Predict what will happen when you spin the eggs. What do you discover?

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