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Hi Alissa,

Every last Sunday at the MIT Museum, we do something called Family
Adventures in Science and Technology.  One month last year it fell on
Easter Sunday.  So off we went to a local distributor and got 30
dozen eggs.  Here's what we did:

Egg in a bottle (by the way you can get the egg out with vinegar and
baking soda but it does make a mess!)

We had an egg drop competition.

Egg throwing.  Throw an egg as hard as you can at a bed sheet or
large piece of cloth, that is hung very loosely.  The egg won't break

We had kids separate hard boiled from raw eggs by spinning them.

We put several eggs in vinegar so people could see and feel an egg
with no shell.

Lastly at each station we gave science explanations for each and as
something fun we gave out recipes for natural egg dyes so kids could
color eggs.

We still had a lot of eggs left over.  Needless to say the museum
staff was pretty sick of egg salad for a while!!  If you want any
more details you can contact me directly.

Cheers!

Signe Pereira, M.Ed.
Education Coordinator
MIT Museum
265 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA  02139
Tel: 617-253-9607
Fax: 617-253-8994
http://web.mit.edu/museum/

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>What's your favorite cool science activity that involves eggs? I'm trying to
>get a bunch together (not for Easter, but for National Egg Month, which is
>May!)
>
>I admit I have never tried the classic "egg on the mouth of a jar, drop in a
>match, egg gets sucked in." And I've never tried it because no one has ever
>been able to satisfactorily answer the question "And how do you get the egg
>out?" So I'd love answers to that, and also other suggestions for some
>egg-sellent fun!
>
>Thanks for you sugg-egg-stions.
>--Alissa
>
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