Friday 14 August 2020

Our Fun Egg-speriment!

 Hi everyone! Last week we had an announcement that our class challenge was to bounce a raw egg, our principal gave us a tiny hint, "It might take some time"  That was the hint. Mrs Hickford asked us if anyone knows a way we could try. Some people said sugar water and soup, others said vinegar in a glass jar. We tried the vinegar one, we got two eggs, and two different types of vinegar. We put Malt Vinegar in one glass, then we put White vinegar in the other. We put the eggs in and waited a few days. Here are some pictures,


 


We had so much fun! A few days later we took out the eggs and felt them, they were squishy and you could kinda see the yolk, then we talked how it felt and we rubbed the dissolved shell off of the egg, we then got told to go outside, but I stayed close to Mrs Hickford and she started bouncing one of the eggs on the table then dropped it on the ground and... IT EXPLODED!!! Eww! Mr Abbott was outside so I told him about it and then a lot of kids in my class came inside and saw the yucky disaster on the floor. Then we cleaned most of it and went outside onto the concrete, because that's where we had to bounce it. We got a meter ruler and put an ice cream container there, first we dropped it from 10 center meters, and it bounced, then we tried 20 center meters but it didn't make it. At least we still had a few days, but today we got told we still have another week to try! Keep safe everyone! Maybe you could try bouncing a raw egg?

2 comments:

  1. Hi Kaya, Well done on your experiment. I love the photos you have posted. what is the gunky stuff sitting on top of the vinegar in the jars? What are egg shells made from and what made it dissolve? What kind of reaction is this called?

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  2. Hi Chris! I really love the photos too. The gunky stuff is some of the shell and the vinegar made it dissolve.

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