Egg-Drop

Posted Date: 11/13/2024

Capitol Elementary 4th-graders experienced an egg-drop STEM experiment in Mrs. Clara Sanders' Science classes today. After studying gravity in their force and motion unit, this was a great way to prove all the hypotheses they had guessed thus far. Students were challenged to make a device to protect an egg that would be dropped from 50 feet in the air! After the experiment, students evaluated the condition of their egg, discussing gravity, force, and motion. They wrote about positive devices that worked and told why they were good. Students with broken eggs learned they would have to return to the drawing board to engineer something better. This all-inclusive lesson ended with students (and one teacher) landing on foam, which really made the gravity concept learned in this STEM lesson come to life! Thank you to LISD Maintenance for providing the lift for the experiment!