Martin Luther King Jr. Day

We have been learning about the significance of Martin Luther King Jr. this week because of the holiday. My students learned the important work he did and also why we celebrate his birthday. To help them fully understand his belief that all people should be treated the same, we did a little experiment!

We began the experiment with 2 eggs. One egg was brown and the other egg was white. The kids looked at the eggs and told me how they were the same and how they were different.

Then I asked them to think about what they might find on the inside of the egg.  I was very surprised to find that the majority of my class thought that the two eggs would look different on the inside. To test their predictions, we cracked them!! They were very surprised to learn that both eggs look the same on the inside!

We discussed that the eggs that we saw were very similar to people. The shell of the egg is similar to our skin. We discussed how we all look different from each other because we have different skin colors. Then we talked about the inside of the egg. The kids were very sweet and made the connection that all people are the same on the inside, just like the two different eggs. :)