Today was the Kinderchicklets 2nd last day of school, Tracy and since we have been having alot of trouble viewing the FalconCam these past few days, we decided to try a little science experiment, to test for ourselves, the strength of a chicken's eggshell.
So here is what we did...
First, we placed 3 uncooked chicken eggs, close together, in a triangle shape, into a big ziploc bag and zipped the bag closed, very tight.
Next, we began placing heavy encyclopedia-type books on top of the eggs.
Last, can you guess how many heavy books we were able to place on top of the eggs, before the eggshells broke and the eggs went SPLAT?!
Did you say 6?!
You did?!
Then you are absolutely right!!!
You are so smart!
The 'chicklets want me to tell you though, Tracy, if you decide to try this experiment at home, whatever you do, make sure that your ziploc bag is zipped closed VERY tight or you might just have an enormous mess to clean up!
And of course, they would NEVER, EVER try this experiment with peregrine falcon eggs, because they do know that peregrine falcons are a "species at risk" and they would never want to hurt a peregrine falcon egg!
So today the Kinderchicklets learned that the calcium in eggshells makes eggshells very strong!
And they now know that they will never have to worry about Princess breaking her eggs, the next time she is incubating eggs!
They have also been learning that their bones have calcium in them too. So they are promising to keep on drinking milk, even when they leave for their summer holidays!
Oh, and one more thing, Tracy, the Kinderchicklets want me to tell you that you won't be able to make pancakes with the eggs that go SPLAT, because it would be too hard to pick all of the eggshells out of the eggs!
We sure had fun today doing that science experiment!
We wanted to go "out with a bang" and we did!