| Mrs. Thornton's fifth grade class participated in an Egg Drop Project to review their Motion and Design unit in Science. Students explored the concepts of lift, surface area, and momentum by working together in pairs to create a vehicle that would allow a raw egg to survive a drop of 10-15 feet. All materials had to be recycled (nothing could be store-bought). The first day students worked with their partners to develop a plan. The second and third days they assembeled their "egg baskets" and ran three practice tests with a practice plastic egg filled with jelly beans. On the fourth day students presented their projects to the other fifth grade classes, who had to predict what they thought would work and why. The last day was the final test, when all of the fifth grade classes gathered around Mrs. Thornton, who bravely climbed a ladder and dropped each egg basket from a height of about 15 feet. Wow! |
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