Third Grade Egg Drop
2014
The Egg Drop
is a highlight for third graders! Your
child needs to design something to put a raw egg into. On Egg Drop Day he/she brings it to school
and drops it out Mrs. McKenzie’s classroom window. (The window opening is 25”X 15”.) The contraption is limited to 5 pounds or less.
Your child will take apart his/her egg drop and see if it survived.
This activity is an introduction to
writing a “Scientific Inquiry”. Along
with the egg drop, students need to draw their design and label the materials
they used. They also need to explain, in
writing, how it was put together and why they feel their egg will survive the
drop.
Date: Wednesday,
April 23, 2014
Time: View
the designs in classrooms from 9:00-9:30am
9:30 –The Egg Drop
Place: Spectators can assemble on the playground
Great Photo Opportunity!!!
See you
there!
Outline for
Scientific Inquiry:
Question:
Will a raw egg break or not break when it is dropped 20 feet out a window onto
an asphalt surface?
1. What I already know: (for example: an egg is
fragile, the surface is hard and many materials can be used to cushion the egg.
2. Prediction: I think…. This is the section where students explain
what they think will happen and why they chose the materials they used.
3. Procedure: In this section, students explain how they
put their egg drop together. Include a
drawing and a materials list.
4. Conclusion: This section will be completed after the egg
drop. They will record whether or not
the egg survived and explain their results; why it survived or why it did not.
The first three sections are to be completed at home and
turned in on Egg Drop Day. They should
be written in paragraph form. The
inquiry can be typed or neatly handwritten.
