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Home's Cool Science Learning Activity: Egg in a Bottle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=62&v=zgF_x7fY9Gc&feature=emb_logoHome's Cool! While we're all working from home, the parents, former teachers, and play experts at EI are sharing some of their favorite educational activities to help keep your family learning and growing. Check out this idea from Michael Sheridan, one of our Product Managers!When the fire is burning inside the glass, it heats up the air inside the bottle. This heated air wants to spread out and escape out the top of the bottle, but the egg is blocking it from doing that. The cool air outside the bottle is at a higher pressure than the air inside the bottle, so it literally pushes the egg into the bottle.Ages: 8+Grades: 3+Supplies:• Egg• Glass bottle or jar with narrow mouth• Lighter (preferably with a long neck) or matchProcedure:1. Ask your parents to help you hard boil an egg.2. Let the egg cool, then carefully peel its shell off.3. Insert a crumpled piece of paper into the glass bottle.4. Ask your parents to drop a match or use a lighter to help you light the paper on fire.BE SURE TO DO THIS STEP OUTSIDE AND AT A SAFE DISTANCE FROM ANYTHING FLAMMABLE.5. With the fire safely contained in the bottom of the bottle, carefully set the egg on the top of the bottle.6. Watch as the egg is slowly sucked into the bottle!How do you get the egg out? Apply the same physics, just in reverse.1. Turn the bottle over so the egg is in the spout.2. Holding the bottle upside down, blow air (or have an adult do this step) into the bottle.3. The air you blow into the bottle will go around the egg and begin to create higher pressure inside the bottle and push the egg back out. MIchaelEI Product Manager Michael Sheridan is a jack of all trades! An avid surfer and former international soccer competitor, this outdoor and sporting enthusiast also has a degree in Astrophysics from UCLA and eight years of product development experience in a variety of industries. Prior to helping build EI's science products and brain game lines, Michael developed everything from folding chairs to electric scooters and skateboards!
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Home's Cool Science Learning Activity: Egg in a Bottle https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=62&v=zgF_x7fY9Gc&feature=emb_logoHome's Cool! While we're all working from home, the parents, former teachers, and play experts at EI are sharing some of their favorite educational activities to help keep your family learning and growing. Check out this idea from Michael Sheridan, one of our Product Managers!When the fire is burning inside the glass, it heats up the air inside the bottle. This heated air wants to spread out and escape out the top of the bottle, but the egg is blocking it from doing that. The cool air outside the bottle is at a higher pressure than the air inside the bottle, so it literally pushes the egg into the bottle.Ages: 8+Grades: 3+Supplies:• Egg• Glass bottle or jar with narrow mouth• Lighter (preferably with a long neck) or matchProcedure:1. Ask your parents to help you hard boil an egg.2. Let the egg cool, then carefully peel its shell off.3. Insert a crumpled piece of paper into the glass bottle.4. Ask your parents to drop a match or use a lighter to help you light the paper on fire.BE SURE TO DO THIS STEP OUTSIDE AND AT A SAFE DISTANCE FROM ANYTHING FLAMMABLE.5. With the fire safely contained in the bottom of the bottle, carefully set the egg on the top of the bottle.6. Watch as the egg is slowly sucked into the bottle!How do you get the egg out? Apply the same physics, just in reverse.1. Turn the bottle over so the egg is in the spout.2. Holding the bottle upside down, blow air (or have an adult do this step) into the bottle.3. The air you blow into the bottle will go around the egg and begin to create higher pressure inside the bottle and push the egg back out. MIchaelEI Product Manager Michael Sheridan is a jack of all trades! An avid surfer and former international soccer competitor, this outdoor and sporting enthusiast also has a degree in Astrophysics from UCLA and eight years of product development experience in a variety of industries. Prior to helping build EI's science products and brain game lines, Michael developed everything from folding chairs to electric scooters and skateboards! READ MORE