The week of October 6 to the 10, psychology students undertook a unique project called “Egg Baby.” Each student cared for a hard boiled egg as if it were their child.

 This project offered a hands-on learning experience, responsibility, and realities of parenthood. Mr. Stephen Kline, first year psychology teacher said the goal of this project was to “have high school students understand a fraction of the responsibilities of taking care of a kid.” This project was assigned to close the unit of infant and child development. 

Kline explained that the project was first introduced to him by former AP psychology teachers, Kevin Coleman and Barry Reardon.

His guidelines for this project included co-parenting an egg with another student in the class. Students and their partner had to name, decorate, create a carrier, and in all, keep the egg safe. Kline said each day his students filled out a journal to reflect on at the end of the day. 

With it being Kline’s first year teaching psychology, assigning this project for the first time had some challenges. His biggest challenge was not hard boiling the eggs when first assigned to students and having an incident with an egg cracking in a class. This led to him stopping the project and restarting using hard boiled eggs in place of raw eggs.

A realization he made while restarting the project was the attachment the students made with the “Egg Baby.” He said “I definitely was not expecting such a quick reaction or attachment from the students with their eggs.”

The “Egg Baby” project served as a memorable and effective learning experience that brought student concepts of psychology to life.