What grade do you do the egg drop project?

What grade do you do the egg drop project?

Although this activity is most popular in high school physics classes, we’ve adapted it for elementary aged children and have done it with my husband’s 4th grade class for years in a row. (You can even do it with preschool aged children!)

What does the egg drop experiment teach?

The egg drop project is a time-honored tradition in many science classrooms. Students build a device to protect an egg and prevent it from breaking when dropped. This project typically relates to lessons about Newton’s laws of motion or potential and kinetic energy.

What will protect an egg when dropped?

Possibilities include balloons, popcorn, packing peanuts, wads of paper or cereal puffs. Encase the egg in any of these inside a paper or plastic bag, a sock or a stocking. If you have any bubble wrap around the house, wrapping the egg in several layers of bubble wrap should also provide a good cushion.

How do you do the egg drop challenge?

Procedure

1. Come up with an idea of some type of container you can make to protect an egg from a high fall.
2. Build your container and place the egg inside.
3. Drop the egg from someplace high. (Be sure it’s safe and an adult is with you.)
4. After you drop it look and see if your egg cracked or remained intact.

Who invented the egg drop?

Mechelle DeYoung came up with one creative solution by inserting a raw egg into a jar of marshmallow cream, cushioning it in cotton balls, and placing it in a padded box.

How do you make a helicopter drop an egg?

You simply cut a long rectangle of paper, cut half way down the middle the long way, and attach a paper clip to the bottom. Drop it and it spins like crazy! This is a fun science activity in itself, truthfully. My Sam had a lot of fun dropping down the paper helicopters and watching them spin.

What are the best materials for an egg drop?

Materials

• Raw egg, or other payload that needs protecting.
• Container, like a cardboard tube, cup, box, etc.
• External protection materials, like balloons, rubber bands, craft sticks, straws, etc.
• Internal padding, like fabric, packing materials, paper, etc.
• Pen or pencil.
• Paper.
• Tape.
• Scissors.

How do you make a successful egg drop?

There are three basic ways to increase the likelihood of safely dropping an egg:

1. Slow down the descent speed.
2. Cushion the egg so that something other than the egg itself absorbs the impact of landing.
3. Orient the egg so that it lands on the strongest part of the shell.