Are egg drops all that they are cracked up to be?

Egg Drop

By Student Blogger Sam

We are doing the egg drop, will your egg survive? The egg drop is actually supposed to be a science experiment of what happens to a egg when it hits the ground from up “high.” We are supposed to be  dropping it from six feet that's not very high so the teachers decided we should actually drop it from a crane sixty feet up in the air.

Everybody in the classroom, including teachers, participated and had fun in this experiment, which turned out to be sort of a STEM challenge. On Tuesday, October 23rd we built our egg holders. We used many, many feet of bubble wrap, we also used cardboard boxes, trash bags and much, much more. Not every group used the same materials. I can say one thing, EVERYBODY used some bubble wrap because one group had over 50’ of it.

Then on Thursday, October 25th we were ready to test our egg holders to see which eggs would survive.

Here are some interviews that we conducted before the big drop.

 
And then it was time for the eggs to be dropped from the crane.

We had two teams that their egg survived! One group that survived had  a lot of bubble wrap and a big parachute.

The other group had paper packing material, bubble wrap, socks, a gum container, and three parachutes.

The other eggs weren't so lucky.

Everybody had fun and we all hoped we would do it again in fourth grade or we could do it again in fifth grade!