This is what happens when eggs don't fly!
This week as a part of our space inquiry and a bit of a lead into the technology challenge, that will take place at Taradale Intermediate in Term 2, Room's 8 and 9 tried to make eggs fly!
The challenge was to make eggs fly with out them breaking. The class was put into groups of three and four and only had this list of equipment:
- 1 meter of string
- 1 meter of tape
- 5 cotton buds
- Some scissors
- A piece of A2 paper
Some very different designs were made by the groups and when we tested for the first time we found out that the cotton buds played a big part in keeping the eggs safe and not broken. So, for our variable to be changed and making the test harder the second time around the groups had to change something to their flying egg devices and have not cotton bud in them either.
The students had lots of fun doing this and learnt about how re-entry into earth works if you are coming back from outer space.
2 comments:
That flying egg experiment looked fun I wish I could have done it. I like the idea and maybe next time we could use different marterials from 'weepy'
that would have been messy i would not like to be the one cleaning that up
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