Egg investigation! – Ms Quin

Egg investigation

This week our kindergarten classes got an incubator delivered to our school. We learned that animals who lay eggs are called oviparous animals and those that give birth to babies are called viviparous animals.

Here is a photo of the eggs that were delivered in the incubator. They are expected to hatch in approximately 13 days. We decided to do a little egg investigation this afternoon.

On Monday, all the children predicted what they thought would be in our eggs. I found images of eggs for the animals they predicted for this investigation.

Today we looked at the different types of animal eggs to compare the similarities and differences to see if we can determine what eggs we have.

Alligator/Crocodile eggs

Could our eggs be from a crocodile or alligator?

no because it’s not the same – Maria
no, because they’re too fat – Jayden
no, because those are longer – Aarya
no, because they’re more oval – Lena
no, because they’re too dotted – Finn
no, because they are too thin – Euan
no, they’re oval shaped and ours are fatter than them – Quinn

Platypus egg

Could our eggs from a platypus?

no, it’s too small – Aymaan
they look like potatoes – Euan
no, because it’s different colours – Kristy

Puffin egg

Could our eggs from a puffin?

no, because it’s a bit round – Hailey
maybe, because they’re the same size – Finn
no, because those ones are round than these ones – Quinn
no, because those are a little bit round and a little bit oval – Aarya

Sea Turtle eggs

Could our eggs from a sea turtle?

no, because it’s a sphere – Aayden
no, it’s not the same – Kenney
no, because there might be water inside the sea turtle shells – Finn
no, because they not the same – Maria

Spider eggs

Could our eggs from a spider?

no, because they look different – Renzo
no, because it’s a bit too small – Hailey
no, because they are a little bit middle – Aarya

Butterfly eggs

Could our eggs from a butterfly?

no, because they’re teeny tinier – Aarya
no, because ours are not the size of a pin head – Finn
no, because they are yellow – Kristy
no, because they’re way way way too small – Andrew

Duck & Chicken eggs

Could our eggs from a duck?

maybe, it’s a bit too white – Hailey
yes, because it’s the same size – Kristy
no, because the middle size and it’s a little bit small – Aarya
yes, because duck and puffin and the same size and duck are the same size as our eggs – Finn
yes, because it’s the same as our eggs – Jayden

Could our our eggs from a chicken?