Standard Egg Drop: Start with the classic challenge where students must design a contraption to protect a raw egg from breaking when dropped from a certain height. They can experiment with different materials and shapes for their protective devices. When everyone reaches zero, the person leading the activity should drop the egg from at least two metres high. Although this activity is most popular in high school physics classes, we’ve adapted it for elementary aged children and have done it with my husband’s 4th grade class for years in a row. (You can even do it with preschool aged children!) If you're planing a host of STEM themed activities to celebrate Engineers Week, you'll be pleased to know that this Egg Box challenge is part of a bundle of resources we've made in collaboration with Engineers Ireland. Here are just a few more we think you'll love: This STEM challenge is one of a series of free resources designed to allow learners to use Easter themes to develop their knowledge and skills in Design and Technology and Engineering. This resource focuses on the egg drop challenge. Sheets of paper are used to make a protective structure to prevent an egg being broken when dropped from height.

Be sure the drop location remains clear for quite a surrounding distance, especially on a windy day. Falling eggs could harm someone, and raw eggs are messy and unsanitary. Real-world STEM challenge lesson but don’t know where to start? Our easy-to-follow template shows the steps! In this fun STEM egg drop challenge students will use, make, and assemble a protective structure to save an egg from breaking.These supplies must reach designated landing areas accurately and intact. When things do not go as planned, bags of food can burst from the impact, and sometimes supplies completely miss the target landing areas. (Read aloud to students a 1994 news article about emergency food airdrops that landed off target in Zaire.)

These STEM questions for reflection are perfect to use with older kiddos to talk about how the project went and what they might do differently next time around. Use these questions for reflection with your kids after they have completed the STEM challenge to encourage discussion of results and critical thinking. Straw Boats Challenge– Design a boat made from nothing but straws and tape, and see how many items it can hold before it sinks. Activity Sheet - Children can use this to help guide their design choices. It includes a handy space where they can draw out their design before attempting to make it. It even has plenty of prompt questions to help them improve their design. Penny Boat Challenge– Design a simple tin foil boat, and see how many pennies it can hold before it sinks. In addition to the information below, the associated lesson, Move It!, provides an introduction to this activity. The activity motivation is also discussed in the Assessment and Lesson Extension sections.)

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The kids were super excited to take part in the egg drop project, and one student even suggested we do it again later in the year taking into account what we learned from the current egg drop challenge. I’m sure we’ll be doing it again soon! acceleration: The rate of change of velocity with respect to time. The measure of how fast the velocity of an object increases or decreases. tape, 2 feet; more tape makes the activity easier and less tape makes it more difficult so scale as you like