Don’t put all your eggs in one basket, they’re more likely to break.

Students at the Island School on Day Road have certainly figured out the old adage. The egg drop, part of their annual science fair, had some students walking away in triumph with intact eggs, and others with egg on their faces.

With a smile, fourth-grade teacher Kim Buchanan dropped each student’s egg-carrying inventions from scaffolding nearly two stories up.

“Thirty-four cross-grade teams made egg drop contraptions at school, and another 20 or so students brought egg bundles from home,” said Joan Henderson of the Island School. “Teachers estimate about half of the eggs survived the drop from the scaffolding.”

While plastic bags might not fair well in Puget Sound, they work great as parachutes to slow the descent. Other students found that padding was the key.

While the egg drop was the headline event of the science fair, it wasn’t the only impressive feat. Island School students created displays ranging from the world of mold to a complete, and very real, dissection of a frog.

Student Antonio Brown showed that objects such as potatoes and even bread hold enough electrical power in them to run a small clock, though not everything proved to be so powerful. Gum, for example, failed to produce a spark.

“It doesn’t work because it’s kind of rubbery,” Antonio said.

Using pop rocks and soda, second-grader Josh Miller, 8, showed the chemical change of placing pop rocks into a bottle of soda. The reaction produces gas, filling a balloon at the top of the bottle.

And when Miller’s balloon sprung a sugary leak as it expanded, students found it to be a great opportunity to experience the sweet taste of science.