{"id":598,"date":"2020-03-30T10:17:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T07:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/?p=598"},"modified":"2020-03-30T10:17:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T07:17:55","slug":"egg-drop-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/2020\/03\/30\/egg-drop-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Egg Drop Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I like challenges. Do you dare to try this I found from <a href=\"https:\/\/buggyandbuddy.com\/egg-drop-challenge-and-free-planning-printable-science-invitation-saturday\/\">Buggy and Buddy<\/a>?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The challenge is to create a container that will protect an egg from cracking or breaking from a high fall. You can make this as simple or complex as you want depending on the amount of time you have and the ages of kids you are working with.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Materials for the Egg Drop Challenge<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can use anything you want!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Procedure<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Come up with an idea of some type of container you can make to protect an egg from a high fall.<\/li>\n<li>Build your container and place the egg inside.<\/li>\n<li>Drop the egg from someplace high. (Be sure it\u2019s safe and an adult is with you.)<\/li>\n<li>After you drop it look and see if your egg cracked or remained intact.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Questions to Spark More Curiosity &amp; Critical Thinking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Describe your design.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why do you think it will protect the egg?<\/li>\n<li>Did it work? Why or why not?<\/li>\n<li>How could you improve your design?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Want to go even further?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Try dropping the egg from increasing heights. Does it eventually stop working?<\/li>\n<li>If your initial design did not work, redesign it and try to improve it. Can you get it work the next time?<\/li>\n<li>Fill a box with a large amount of materials that could be used for this project. Then allow each child to only choose 3 items from the box to build their design.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like challenges. Do you dare to try this I found from Buggy and Buddy? The challenge is to create a container that will protect an egg from cracking or breaking from a high fall. You can make this as simple or complex as you want depending on the amount of time you have and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/2020\/03\/30\/egg-drop-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201dEgg Drop Challenge\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2590,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30020,218561],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-experiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}