Students learned about the wonder of the evolution of anniotic eggs — eggs with a shell and an amnion, a membrane to support the embryo’s life. We incubated chicken eggs, dyed eggs using vegetable dyes from our school garden, and make an Amniotic Trailer Park, with pictures of hard-shelled trailers, submarines and space ships that, like eggs, contained food, waste storage, a cushion against falls, and oxygen exchange.
The best part of the study was watching our new chick, Frances Chick (she’s as smart as Frances Crick!) hatching from her egg!
