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[Burndog]

This week's blog focus is that old chestnut...the Egg Drop activity! A great activity for Elementary, Middle, High and Adult students alike! I hope you cats find it useful.

http://burndogsburnblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/egg-drop.html

[kiknkorea]

Always a good time!
The kids love it and can get competitive.
Best part is the reactions to each drop.

[MattAwesome]

excellent. how did you go about gathering materials? out of pocket? scavenged school first?

[Burndog]

I had to buy the eggs. The school's budget for special class is empty!

The other things were a combination of things that I had left over, and extra things I had asked for in the past when I had camps. My school generally only spends money on camps...so i ask for things like string and balloons and lots of cardboard and stuff every camp. It means that I have some extra basic items for when I want to do an activity like this.

I think most schools should have these items lying about somewhere in the school (apart from eggs!).

[Burndog]

[winterfall]

I don't get it. So they have to wrap the egg in the tissues right, otherwise it'll splatter? Then what they do from there is up to them?

[Burndog]

[AsiaESLbound]

Cool. Thanks for another Winter camp idea. I've already got the balloons to do it with. I also am going to do the egg and spoon relay race where they have to walk a relay with an egg in a white plastic spoon held in their mouths without dropping them. I'll boil those, but tell students they are raw and if they have an accident, they have to clean it up before continuing their race risking elimination. In fact, when they have an accident, they'll notice it's not the bad mess they had in mind and all they have to do is pick it up and go.

I can now remember how to say, "window," by thinking of the mythological golden water dragon found at Thai and Burmese temples. Thanks again.

[Burndog]

I should explain that Naga (나가) means leave or go out....so window naga...is window get out! So...don't say naga meaning window!!

Sorry...I realise now that the way that I wrote it...made less sense than it should have!

[schwa]

You do know that the egg-drop thing is something the kids already do every year as part of science day? They use plastic straws & hardboiled eggs. Passably funny but usually draws a "meh" on the excitement scale.

[Burndog]

[schwa]

Okay sorry, maybe thats local. All the middle schools here do egg-drops, bottle rockets, & pouring layered colors of liquids into a tube (hello future bartenders!) & have done so year after year on "science" day. Never varies.

[Burndog]

Ah...I am at an Elementary School...which probably explains why they don't do it in science class...and why they find it exciting!

[Troglodyte]

Ah the old egg drop. You can never go wrong with that one. I think that the most ingenious contraption I've seen to slow the egg was a simple rotor made from a twisted piece of cardboard. Since it spun as it dropped, it really slowed down the descent speed. As long as the egg could survive the impact of the first drop, it would likely survive it from any height because the speed didn't seem to increase much with altitude.

[Burndog]