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Eggs-periments!


      While skimming through pictures on Pinterest, I stumbled upon an experiment using two very simple household staples, egg and vinegar. It made its way to our list of activities but it was never offered to the boys as something they might want to do (with unschooling, we, the parents, only ask the boys if they want to do activities with us, we do not impose). Well, until the boys got very curious with some dinosaur eggs they are selling in a bookstore. I thought they were too expensive but luckily, their aunt, Tita Daisy, saved the day! She's familiar with those eggs and had tried them with her son. So, James got a green egg and Adam got a red one, his favorite color.

        If you would notice, Adam's dinosaur is "pre-matured". He was too curious to wait for the jar of water, so the first experiment came to the conclusion that the dinosaur eggs are just like chicken eggs, they can break easily. The second experiment involved James, picking up Adam's egg from the water, and finding out that it can still break into smaller pieces. I guess they can't just stand there and watch, they have to touch those eggs! They are tactile learners and this two faux eggs are just so full of surprises that their fingers started itching.

         At this moment, we have two jars with at least two experiments going. The boys predicted that the vinegar will make the eggs "melt" because they saw some bubbles. We also talked a little bit about acid and how some acids should be handled carefully by adults and are dangerous for them.

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