Naked Egg and Osmosis

I'll be honest here, the main reason I keep a blog is so I can go back sometimes and remember what we did. This is especially the case now as we are now in the high school years. One of the universities in our area actually requires homeschoolers to list a lab and explain it, even down to the materials that we use. This is part of their application process. So this will be helpful in remembering what we did.

Anyways, I don't have very many pictures for this lab, because well - I dropped the ball as we had family in town and forgot to take pictures.

The first step to this lab is to get a naked egg (or two depending on how you choose to perform the experiment). If you aren't sure how to get a naked egg, you place it in vinegar for 24 hours. It's a pretty easy process.

The things you will need for this lab are:

Corn Syrup
Water
Food Coloring
Glasses
2 Naked Eggs (or 1 if you do it the way we did)

The experiment for osmosis can be seen in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyYz-1gqt68. We changed it up in just putting one egg in corn syrup and then putting it in water the next day to see the change.

We're loving doing these labs as they are definitely reinforcing what my high schooler has been reading during the week in the text.

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