Sixth grade science students were asked to use their knowledge of acceleration, forces, and engineering during the last week of school. They were challenged to create a device that would would protect a raw egg from a two meter drop. Students initially were given two styrofoam cups and 18 inches of tape. Throughout the week they were allowed to test (with hard boiled eggs) and modify their device with one additional item each day. By the end of the week we had ten eggs that survived the two meter drop, so what did we do? We moved up to three meters. From three meters, we still had six eggs survive. Science is fun!
Sixth grade science students were asked to use their knowledge of acceleration, forces, and engineering during the last week of school. They were challenged to create a device that would would protect a raw egg from a two meter drop. Students initially were given two styrofoam cups and 18 inches of tape. Throughout the week they were allowed to test (with hard boiled eggs) and modify their device with one additional item each day. By the end of the week we had ten eggs that survived the two meter drop, so what did we do? We moved up to three meters. From three meters, we still had six eggs survive. Science is fun! Comments are closed.
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