Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Teaching Engineering Design With an Egg Drop
Students build a device to protect an egg and prevent it from breaking when dropped.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Momentum and Collisions: Egg Drop Interactive
This egg-drop simulation allows students to explore the variables that result in a safe landing or a broken egg. The emphasis of the accompanying activity sheet is on the use of science reasoning skills to understand the physics behind...
National Science Teachers Association
National Science Teachers Association: Egg Drop and Impulse
This page offers a detailed description of and a link to a set of lessons that will assist teachers in targeting NGSS standard HS-PS2-3. Young scholars investigate momentum and impulse and are challenged to solve an engineering problem...
Science Fun for Everyone
Science Fun: Egg Drop
Learn about inertia with this egg drop science experiment. Try not to crack too many eggs!
Cengage Learning
Cengage Learning: Project Based Learning: Egg Drop Experiment
Students are challenged to design a way to drop a raw egg from varying heights without letting the egg break. Creative thinking and evaluation of results are critical to the project.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: The Great Egg Drop: Relationship Between Gravity, Mass and Density
An interesting experiment in the relationship between gravity, density, and mass. Middle schoolers must devise a way to drop a milk carton containing two raw eggs off a roof 50 feet high, without breaking the eggs. They then write a...
Museum of Science
Museum of Science and Industry Chicago: Online Science: Drop Eggs Into Cups
Step-by-step illustrated instructions showing how to drop four eggs into four cups without touching them. Demonstrates the concept of inertia according to Newton's first law of motion.
Museum of Science
Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Activities: Make an Egg Bungee
Step-by-step instructions, with photos, of how to prepare an egg for a 'bungee jump' using a plastic bag and elastics, and a yard stick to measure the distance it falls each time it is dropped. The activity investigates the Law of...
Maryland Science Center
Maryland Science Center: Barnyard Ballooning [Pdf]
This is a design challenge where students create a basket, attach it to a balloon, add eggs, and drop it all from a height to see if their design protects the eggs from cracking.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Bumps and Bruises
Students learn about the role engineers play in creating protective gear for sports. Students then build a protective landing pad to catch a dropped egg without it breaking
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Engineering in Sports
Imagining themselves arriving at the Olympic gold medal soccer game in Beijing, students begin to think about how engineering is involved in sports. After a discussion of kinetic and potential energy, an associated hands-on activity...
Other
Kiddy House: All About Chickens for Kids and Teachers
This comprehensive resource features everything you want to know about chickens. Students and teachers will "cluck" when they explore this site.
Pennsylvania State University
Penn State University: Embryology in the Classroom
Come and learn more about how to incorporate embryology into your classroom. This site features tons of information about the embryology of chickens.