Summary
Onom has to deliver fifteen eggs across town before an angry monster catches up — but the eggs each weigh a pound, and the tube system won't take them. He hops a plane, a train, and a bus, weighing his options the whole way. A breezy look at measuring weight and solving a delivery problem step by step.
Viewer safety
All agesMild peril
A grumpy monster chases an agent — light cartoon chase, played for laughs.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
Moving fifteen one-pound eggs turns into a weighing-and-planning problem.
- If each egg weighs one pound, how much do all fifteen weigh together?
- Why did the weight of the eggs change Onom's plans?
- What's a time you had to figure out how to carry something heavy or bulky?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: weight, pound, mass, total.
Try it: Pick three classroom objects, guess which is heaviest, then check by holding them — order them lightest to heaviest.