Egg Drop Experiment
As a culminating task to our Science unit all about forces, we worked in teams to design and build and finally test a way to protect an egg from breaking. Much like a helmet will protect our heads from a fall, we had a similar task to ensure these precious eggs stayed in tact. We dropped the eggs from the top of our school and watched to see what would happen. Would our parachutes open? Would our layers of protection actually work? Would our ideas play out the way we expected?
We discussed how we would ensure our tests were fair such as:
- dropped from the same height
- dropped on the same day
- dropped in the same manner
In the several years of conducting this experiment, this would be the first time Mrs. Sullivan would have all student groups be successful in having their eggs stay in tact! Wow! How impressive!
Have a look at the experiments in action:
Dear Grade 3s and 4s,
I am SO impressed with your designs and the teamwork you used to build these projects. It is clear that you were all successful in your experiments and that you had fun! Bravo!
Mrs. S 🙂
Dear class,
I loved all of you egg drop experiment’s they looked great. Would you do it again I know I would . It was cool how all of are egg drop experiment did not break we beat mrs.judge.
From Felix,
Dear class,
It looks like the egg drop Wind well.
Did Any eggs break ?
Congratulations to all!