Eggs
Book Spotlight: Egg Drop
May is National Egg Month! What an eggs-cellent idea to explore eggs! There is so much to learn about eggs. Exposing kids to eggs is the best way to see if they have genuine interest in pursuing further investigations. When children are truly interested they learn so much more.
This blog is an introduction to egg resources you might use as part of your lesson planning inspiration. The Incredible Egg has created lots of wonderful free resources to help classroom teachers explore eggs, and even has their own YouTube channel.
Online Books
Having books in the classroom and at home are important for the development of young minds. Just like when we watch a movie over and over, we catch things we missed the first time. Kids do this with books, and emergent readers will read over and over again if they are interested and have the books.
Egg Drop
Egg Drop by Mini Grey is excellent for science and engineering topics. Build and Test an egg saving safety devices. Pause the video at .48 seconds (on the second reading) for some visual assistance. Kids might use bubble wrap, cardboard and tape and/or other household recycled materials. After they build the device, have them test the contraptions in a place where the eggs will not make a mess. Drop from a window (does not need to be higher than a couple of feet to test). Alternatively, hard-boil the eggs prior to exploring the egg drop challenge.
Exploring Egg Drop with Young Learners
First, start with a book cover inspection. Show children the cover of the book, and ask, “what do you think this book is about?” Follow this with some open ended questions to get their minds warmed up.
- What is an egg?
- What are some things you can do with an egg?
- Where do eggs come from?
- What came first the chicken or the egg? (just kidding)
- What are some things that fly?
After reading the book for the first time, ask more open-ended questions. Remember there are no wrong answers. Some questions might include:
- Why can’t eggs fly?
- What happens when they fall or get dropped?
- Why is hard to put an egg back together again?
- What happened at the end of the story?
- What are some ways you might keep an egg safe? (read above)
More Egg Read Aloud Books
During the month of May, you might consider sharing other books. Then doing your own egg challenge. Here are some additional egg books to consider sharing with your students.
After the Fall
Another excellent book for this lesson is After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again) by Dan Santat.
“Everyone knows that when Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. But what happened after? Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat’s poignant tale follows Humpty Dumpty, an avid bird watcher whose favorite place to be is high up on the city wall―that is, until after his famous fall. Now terrified of heights, Humpty can longer do many of the things he loves most. Will he summon the courage to face his fear?” – Excerpt Amazon
The Good Egg
The Good Egg by Jory John is a cute piece of fiction that will keep young learners interested and entertained.
“Meet the good egg. He’s a verrrrrry good egg indeed. But trying to be so good is hard when everyone else is plain ol’ rotten. As the other eggs in the dozen behave badly, the good egg starts to crack from all the pressure of feeling like he has to be perfect. So, he decides enough is enough! It’s time for him to make a change…” – Excerpt Amazon
Extend the Egg Lessons
Here are some more videos and experiments you might want to share with your kids. The bouncing egg experiment amazes children and it is simple to implement.
Why Are Chicken Eggs Different Colors?
This is a video you might want to share with your students. It is quick and although you can simply share why chicken eggs are basically two colors, adding technology is very important in today’s learning environment.
How to Make Bouncing Eggs
The bouncing egg experiment has been around for a while and it is fun for kids. This video will help give you some ideas on how to proceed with sharing it with children. Personally, I have conducted this with homeschoolers and they loved it, and talked about it for weeks.
Eggs and Salt Water Experiment
This one is so cool and the kids might think you are teaching them some magic tricks. You can use this experiment to show density and buoyancy, or just have fun. This is a good learning video for adults to see how easy it can be to add a little science to academics.
FREE Printables
The last four free resources are from some of my peers on Teacher Pay Teacher. Even if you are not a traditional classroom teacher any caregiver can get free and/or purchase the teacher created resources on TPT.
The Good Egg Reading Response
This is a perfect resource to use with The Good Egg book.
Hard Boiled Egg: Following Directions
Want to add cooking to the egg inspiration? Print this free, how to, for teaching kids how to follow directions to make hard boiled eggs. Test out some other cooking times to see what happens?
Dolch Sight Word Game
This is the cutest game for kids to practice their words. If you want to keep these around for a while laminate, so there is a little prep, otherwise not really. This would be really cute for a center.
Symm-EGG-try Fun
Lastly, a little bit of math and art to incorporate into your egg starter. I trust some, if not all of these resources will be beneficial to your egg explorations. May is National Egg Month, what better time to start exploring the edible incredible egg!
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