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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Momentum and Collisions: Egg Drop Interactive

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Using Cbr in Egg Drop Competition

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Egg drop competition is a popular activity to reinforce the lessons in force and motion. In the activity, the students are asked to design a vehicle to carry the egg safely when dropped from a height of 10 feet (about 3 m) or more....
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Egg Drop

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this physics lab, learners build a container to safely deliver two eggs from the top of the school. Students calculate average velocity, acceleration, momentum, and the amount of force as it hits the ground. If their egg breaks, they...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Using Egg Drop Activity to Promote Critical Thinking and Analysis Skills

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this multi-activity hands-on inquiry activity, students will develop their critical thinking skills by designing and constructing an apparatus that will permit an egg to survive a nine foot fall. Given limited materials, they will...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Egg Drop

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The lesson will explore positive and negative team performance and behaviors.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: The Great Egg Drop: Relationship Between Gravity, Mass and Density

For Teachers 6th - 8th
An interesting experiment in the relationship between gravity, density, and mass. Students 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 scientific...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Egg Drop Riddle?

For Students 9th - 10th
The city has just opened its one-of-a-kind Faberge Egg Museum, with a single egg displayed on each floor of a 100-story building- and the world's most notorious jewel thief already has her eyes on the prize. Can you help the thief...
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Museum of Science

Museum of Science and Industry Chicago: Online Science: Drop Eggs Into Cups

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Force and Motion: Gravity and Wind Resistance

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Young scholars investigate the effects of force on objects in motion particularly as it relates to gravity and wind resistance by performing a classroom egg-drop activity.
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Museum of Science

Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Activities: Make an Egg Bungee

For Students 3rd - 8th
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...
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Chateau Meddybemps

Chateau Meddybemps: Fun & Games: Color an Easter Egg

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Website allows students to decorate their own virtual Easter eggs with flowers, colors, and crayons.
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Other

Kiddy House: All About Chickens for Kids and Teachers

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This comprehensive resource features everything you want to know about chickens. Students and teachers will "cluck" when they explore this site.
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The Tech Interactive

The Tech Interactive: Tech Tip: Data Collection: Reflecting on Your Design [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource explains why data collection is a great way to make informed improvements to a design, and how to do it. Data can be quantitative - such as a measurement of distance or time - or qualitative, such as an observation of...
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Poetry4 Kids: Fowl Words 2

For Students 3rd - 8th
A fun vocabulary game. Find and type as many words as you can before the eggs drop from the conveyor belt. Shockwave is needed.
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Maryland Science Center

Maryland Science Center: Barnyard Ballooning [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th
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.

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