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nyrockzss · 12-03-2007, 08:32 PM

I did the egg project last year. That was a pain.

Greg · 12-04-2007, 11:21 AM

Did you learn anything?

I'm wondering what the heck you're supposed to learn from it.

Zirconia Wolf · 12-04-2007, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Greg

I'm wondering what the heck you're supposed to learn from it.

That's a good question.

The premise is that you give a kid an egg, they take it everywhere they go for a week or so, then the class gets back together & you all read your cutesy little reports about what you & your "baby" did.

Yes, that's right: the idea is that carrying a chicken egg around for a week (without it breaking) will teach kids what it's like to care for a baby.

No, I don't know who the geniuses behind this little exercise was, but I have to believe they were either childless or married to a chicken farmer with an excess of eggs.

As far as I could tell the only things it teaches is bad creative writing (if I never hear another "egg birth" story again it will be too soon), how stupid your teacher really is (yes of course I remembered to take my egg everywhere with me this week) & outright fraud. (Most teachers mark the bottoms of the eggs with a mere pen dot. It's amazing how many of the eggs seemed...newer...after a week. )

That may be a little cynical on my part- I mean it may have taught some kids more than that- but that's just what I recall of the whole thing.

Miros1 · 12-04-2007, 05:07 PM

You're supposed to learn that taking care of something fragile and vulnerable is a pain in the ass.

It's an attempt to teach teens that babies aren't just something you can play with and stick in the closet when you're bored with them.

The other exercise is with a bag of sugar. By the end of the day, that 5 lb bag weighs more like 25....

I'm sure a significant number of eggs and bags of sugar go into the lockers to be ignored tho.

12-03-2007, 08:32 PM	#21
nyrockzss Awesome Person Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Florida Posts: 38	I did the egg project last year. That was a pain. __________________ I am the youngest person on Sun Sims...AWESOME!!!

12-04-2007, 11:21 AM	#22
Greg Da Guy Wut Owns Dis Joint Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 3,566	Did you learn anything? I'm wondering what the heck you're supposed to learn from it. __________________ Who are all these people and what do they know?

12-04-2007, 05:07 PM	#24
Miros1 Goddess for Life Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: NY State Posts: 3,303	You're supposed to learn that taking care of something fragile and vulnerable is a pain in the ass. It's an attempt to teach teens that babies aren't just something you can play with and stick in the closet when you're bored with them. The other exercise is with a bag of sugar. By the end of the day, that 5 lb bag weighs more like 25.... I'm sure a significant number of eggs and bags of sugar go into the lockers to be ignored tho.