- Grades 6-12
- Protect the falling egg while exploring energy conservation, collision forces, momentum, and Newton's laws
- Create a device to absorb the force from an initial 1-m drop and then design a final model that achieves the highest drop distance
- Materials support 15 design teams.
Protect the falling egg with engineering, geometry, and physics! Design teams create a device from everyday materials to absorb force and protect an egg from an inital 1-meter drop. After investigating the strength of 3-D geometric shapes, teams incorporate this knowledge to reduce the energy of impact. The final models compete to achieve the highest drop distance resulting in an intact egg. Explore energy conservation, collision forces, momentum, and Newton's laws. Materials support 15 design teams. Includes cardboard trays; straws; plastic bags; nylon footies (egg sock); cotton; and teacher's manual with reproducible student guide. Eggs are needed but not supplied.
