Okay, we made naked eggs.... now what???
We did a few different things with our (4) naked eggs. Observed osmosis, reverse osmosis, and durability of the egg membrane. How, you ask... Let me talk you through these experiments one at a time.
To observe osmosis:
We measured our first egg (call it our BLUE egg), height and girth using a measuring tape
Next, we weighed it, using our primary balance and our cm gram cubes.
Then we place it in water that we had tented blue with 5 drops of food coloring (again in our ghetto up-cycled containers)
We waited 24 hours and re weighed and measured. Of course writing down all of our measurements as we went.
What did we observe? Well, the egg not only grew in size and weight (due to the process of osmosis) but also absorbed the blue coloring of the water turning our egg blue.
We used this lesson to do MANY subjects for our day. We learned about the process of osmosis for Science. We looked up, and defined, the Vocabulary words: Osmosis, membrane, absorb, Primary Balance, girth, height, process, observe, and experiment. We measured and weighed the egg for Math (recording our facts) We began an outline for our up-coming science essays (Science AND Language Arts). We even drew pictures of the process for Art class.
If you think this was cool, JUST WAIT! In my next blog post, I will talk you through the "How To"s of reverse osmosis! SUPER BIZARRE and COOL!
Hey Shannon, Guess what we are doing tomorrow? This looks like a lot of fun and we just go out to our coop to get the eggs,:) I think we will use duck eggs.
ReplyDeleteWell then, I guess I'd better get my blogging caught up on the reverse osmosis of the naked egg! It was the coolest experiment we did with our named eggs. A total MUST SEE!
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