The Egg Drop

For the past few weeks, the kindergartners in Paige's class have anxiously been tending chicken eggs in "incuvators." Finally, on May 5th the chicks arrived:

They learned all about oviparous animals and to end the unit they were given the "egg drop" assignment. This was my first time ever doing this but here is what Paige and I came up with:

We started with a raw egg and placed it in a ziploc bag with puffed rice cereal. Then we put the bag between two pieces of foam packing we had leftover from when something was shipped to us.

Next, we wrapped the whole thing with packing tape, over and over. We couldn't find a box that fit the size requirements, so we went without--figuring that cardboard wasn't going to make much of a difference protecting the egg. After it was wrapped up tight, Paige went to town decorating with stickers and ribbon.

Here is the final product. Paige took it to school, where the Vice-Principal dropped it from the roof of the building while the Kindergartners watched from the ground. And the verdict on our engineering...it didn't break!! Way to go Paige!