The goal of the egg drop project is for students to devise a way to house an egg and protect it from cracking when dropped from the ceiling of the gym. This experiment effectively demonstrates what happens to an object in the midst of a collision, in this case between the earth and the egg. We talked extensively in class about Newton's Laws of Motion as applied to car crashes during this unit as well. The egg drop experiment is successfully executed when a student these three laws in balance. Typically, this is done by slowing the rate at which the egg falls, while also cushioning the fall, and then constructing a means by which the power of the impact can be absorbed by something else. We had a couple of eggs go "splat," but overall we had great sucess.
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Mrs. Hemme
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