Egg Drop Project

WHO WILL BUILD THE LIGHTEST PROJECT AND STILL SURVIVE?

Objective: This is a group project to be done. You are to make or build something that is the lightest possible weight, and yet durable enough to protect an egg thrown off the school building roof so that the egg doesn't break from the fall. Think of the egg as a passenger in a car going through a crash test.
 

A - Egg survives the fall fully intact                                                                                                                                                                                  
B - Egg is cracked, but intact
C - Egg is broken
E - Project is not done or disqualified

Rules!

• No balloons or parachutes are allowed.
• The egg and the project must weigh less than 200 grams. ( the average egg weighs 50 grams)
• Only raw, store bought chicken eggs; size medium or larger may be used. You may NOT soak the egg in vinegar.
• Your egg project must fit on a regular size sheet of paper. (note that it may be 3 ft high and still fit on the paper)
• Your egg project must have an opening the size of my pinky finger where I can see a portion of the egg.
• You may not use pillows, or stuffed animals to protect your egg.
• You need to weigh it - If your project is overweight, it will be disqualified.
• Once a project is in school it may not be touched by anyone other than its owner. Please have your group name written on it.
• Once a project has hit the ground it will your responsibility to retrieve your egg and show it to the score keeper for scoring.
• Prepare your own eggs for your project.                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Steps

1. Think about force, acceleration, and gravity and the design principles when you design the container.

2. Two students a group

3. Sketch their containers before they began building their container

4. Conduct at least two trials with their containers--for example, one with a plastic egg and one with a hard-cooked egg.

5. Discuss why they needed to build a prototype and why they needed to do some trial runs with plastic and hard cooked eggs.

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