ResourcesStudents Find Gravity “Egg”-citing!
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Fourth-grade AGATE students at Iowa Elementary recently went to “egg”-straordinary lengths to study gravity and Newton’s Laws of Motion. Students designed contraptions to protect an egg from cracking when dropped– from the roof of the school’s gym.
Working with physical education teacher Casey Powell, students thought “outside of the box” and created ingenious devices to protect an egg, from styrofoam cup spheres to jello cocoons.
Some students also tested structures that would do the exact opposite– they had to come up with ways to make an egg splat the farthest when it struck the ground.
The challenge turned into a competition as other Iowa teachers developed “egg”-citing devices of their own. The project culminated in a sticky mess when the entire school watched Powell and other staff members drop the egg inventions from the school’s roof.
“This was a really fun project, and most of the school came out to watch the drop. Everyone loved watching them splat. Who would of thought that an egg encased in JELLO would survive?”
- Casey Powell
Iowa Elementary physical education teacher
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