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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Constructing an Egg Candler

For Students 9th - 10th
Directions on how to make a device to candle eggs, or check on the progress of the chicken embryo. Links to numerous incubation and embryology resources.
Activity
Chateau Meddybemps

Chateau Meddybemps: Edgar's Easter Eggs

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read the Easter egg story about sharing and then play all the games. Follow directions to decorate eggs, find the hidden eggs, match the egg with the bird, and more.
Website
PBS

Pbs: Faberge Eggs: Mementos of a Doomed Destiny

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting site that chronicles the history of Faberge Eggs, the life of Peter Carl Faberge, and where his inspiration came from. Also provides background on the history of Nicholas II and his reign as the czar of Russia. Many...
eBook
University of Virginia

University of Virginia: The Triumph of the Egg

For Students 9th - 10th
An e-text of Anderson's story "The Triumph of the Egg."
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Osmosis Eggs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lab activity where students learn the concept of osmosis by observing an egg in different solutions. Included is a procedure for students to follow.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Egg Carton Game; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A small group game to build students' abilities to identify letters and their sounds. A student shakes an egg carton, opens it to see where a chip landed, and says the letter and its sound.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Human Egg Cells

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] When a baby girl is born, her ovaries contain all of the eggs they will ever produce. But these eggs are not fully developed. They develop only after she starts...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Human Egg Cells

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how eggs are produced.
Interactive
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Momentum and Collisions: Egg Drop Interactive

For Students 9th - 10th
This egg-drop simulation allows students to explore the variables that result in a safe landing or a broken egg. The emphasis of the accompanying activity sheet is on the use of science reasoning skills to understand the physics behind...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Egg

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story, article or poem is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Simultaneous Hermaphroditism, Egg Trading, and Prisoner's Dilemma

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a five-question quiz pertaining to game theory in the passage "Simultaneous hermaphroditism, egg trading, and the Prisoner's Dilemma."
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Museum of Science

Museum of Science and Industry Chicago: Online Science: Drop Eggs Into Cups

For Students 3rd - 8th
Step-by-step illustrated instructions showing how to drop four eggs into four cups without touching them. Demonstrates the concept of inertia according to Newton's first law of motion.
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Museum of Science

Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Activities: Make an Egg Bungee

For Students 3rd - 8th
Step-by-step instructions, with photos, of how to prepare an egg for a 'bungee jump' using a plastic bag and elastics, and a yard stick to measure the distance it falls each time it is dropped. The activity investigates the Law of...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Art on an Egg

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Green Eggs and Economics?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Economic concepts are often found in places students have never considered, like children's literature. In this lesson, students will explore the various economic concepts addressed in five of Dr. Seuss' most popular books: The Cat in...
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Chateau Meddybemps

Chateau Meddybemps: Fun & Games: Color an Easter Egg

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Website allows students to decorate their own virtual Easter eggs with flowers, colors, and crayons.
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Easter Egg Hunt

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Easter Egg Hunt is fun holiday activity for kids of all ages. The object of this Easter activity is to simply find the hidden eggs. Look carefully at the pictures and use the mouse to click on the eggs to collect them. These Easter Eggs...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Egg Experiments

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Two experiments where learners investigate with uncooked eggs. In the first investigation, they explore how to remove the eggs outer shell while keeping the rest of the egg intact. In the second, students attempt to shrink the egg...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Using Cbr in Egg Drop Competition

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Egg drop competition is a popular activity to reinforce the lessons in force and motion. In the activity, the students are asked to design a vehicle to carry the egg safely when dropped from a height of 10 feet (about 3 m) or more....
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Columbus and the Egg [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
"Columbus and the Egg" is a one page, historical fictional passage about Christopher Columbus's return to Spain after discovering America. Some people said anyone could sail the seas. Columbus used an egg to make a point. It is followed...
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Make an Easter Egg

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Easter Egg Fun is a holiday activity for kids to decorate and hide an Easter Egg! Kids can choose an egg, paint it, put stickers on it, put a toy inside it, hide it and then find it!
eBook
University of Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts: Aesop's Fables: "The Goose With the Golden Eggs"

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Two retellings of Aesop's Fable "The Goose with the Golden Eggs." Both stories illustrate the same moral, "Greed often overreaches itself." The first is a traditional retelling of the original fable. The second is a modern retelling with...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Egg Drop

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this physics lab, students build a container to safely deliver two eggs from the top of the school. Students calculate average velocity, acceleration, momentum, and the amount of force as it hits the ground. If their egg breaks, they...
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Columbus and the Egg

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1856 publication of Columbus and the Egg, a book of stories for children.

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