Channel: Bruce Yeany

Category: Education

Description: Safely stopping an unpackaged egg as it falls is the challenge. This activity has been around since I started teaching in the 70's and has always been a student favorite. However, after trying the original concept of packaging around the egg for several years , I switched from the egg packaging to the idea of egg catching. We've found this to be much more challenging for designs, and better suited to areas while limits to height for the falling distance are a factor, our building limits us to about 5 meters , Difficulty to the challenge can be adjusting the type and amounts of supplies that may be used. I should have mentioned I have done this with adults in a grad class that I taught at a nearby college. In that case the materials were 25 sheet of copy paper and tape, it was a overwhelmingly the favorite activity that I assigned. I do believe that activities such as this need to be tied to a lessons rather than given as a random assignment. The concepts that I use in in conjunction with this activity include: Newton's law's of motion , Impulse, Galileo and accelerating bodies, freefall, terminal velocity. No one asked but the eggs were donated as they were past their expiration date for sale