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Fry an egg on the sidewalk?
Students learn about weather during camp at BA
Frying Egg for Web
Bulloch Academy teacher Pam Averitt checks out the egg setup Monday on the school's track with Tristen Burnsed, a rising fourth grader at BA. The egg frying experiment was part of the Math and Science Camp running all this week at Bulloch Academy. - photo by JEFF HARRISON/staff
Simply pondering if the Georgia heat is blistering enough to cook an egg would not suffice for a group of students at Bulloch Academy Monday. As part of BA’s second annual Math and Science Camp, the youngsters placed yokes on asphalt, tinfoil and in skillets to test their hypotheses regarding the sun’s power. Though the mid-day sunlight neither fried nor scrambled an egg — the matter did begin to solidify during the one hour yolks sat on the school’s running track — the first through fifth-grade students learned fundamental lessons about weather and temperatures.
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