HHONGDU 2 Pcs Portable Egg Storage Box Egg Protector Tray Folding Eggs Holder Carrier for Outdoor Camping Picnic

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If you're planing a host of STEM themed activities to celebrate Engineers Week, you'll be pleased to know that this Egg Box challenge is part of a bundle of resources we've made in collaboration with Engineers Ireland. Here are just a few more we think you'll love: Once the egg protection frame has been built learners will test their structures by dropping the egg first from 0.5m, then 1m.

Style. Ok, so you figured out how to 3D print a safe enclosure for your egg. But can you make the enclosure or the drop look good? You will receive extra points for a creative, original design. Have each group discuss how they could alter and improve their prototype to work in the aftermath of a natural disaster. Get the eggs ready for more simple science projects to explore chemistry, biology, and physics! Naked Egg Experiment Eggshell Geodes More Favorite STEM Challenges We learned that there is no best way to protect an egg. There are multiple ways to do the egg drop successfully. What egg drop design ideas will you come up with? An understanding of the concepts of energy transfer, conservation of energy, potential energy and kinetic energy, as presented in the Move It! associated lesson.Paper Bridges– Similar to our strong spaghettti challenge. Design a paper bridge with folded paper. Which one will hold the most coins? Standard Egg Drop: Start with the classic challenge where students must design a contraption to protect a raw egg from breaking when dropped from a certain height. They can experiment with different materials and shapes for their protective devices. A good STEM project will have a little of at least 2 of the 4 pillars of STEM and often you will find a solid experiment or challenge naturally uses bits and pieces of most of the pillars. As you can see these 4 areas are very intertwined. These supplies must reach designated landing areas accurately and intact. When things do not go as planned, bags of food can burst from the impact, and sometimes supplies completely miss the target landing areas. (Read aloud to students a 1994 news article about emergency food airdrops that landed off target in Zaire.)

Find a good spot from which to make the test airdrops. Ideally, drop the devices from three or four different heights such as 3, 6 (if the teacher holds it above their head), 15 feet (a second story window) and higher, if possible. Be sure the drop location remains clear for quite a surrounding distance, especially on a windy day. Falling eggs could harm someone, and raw eggs are messy and unsanitary.The Egg Drop Challenge is a popular and versatile Easter STEM challenge. It is an exciting and engaging way for children to develop their creative thinking and problem-solving skills. Weight Constraint: Introduce the maximum weight constraint for the entire contraption. This requires students to think about the trade-off between protection and weight. Define a design problem that can be solved through the development of an object, tool, process or system and includes multiple criteria and constraints, including scientific knowledge that may limit possible solutions. EDP Step 6: Test and Evaluate the Prototype. When the prototyping/building time is up, ask teams to bring their designs to the drop location. Perform the egg drop from the 3-foot height. Be sure the entire apparatus is above the required height. Test for broken eggs and ask students to measure and record the distances from the target.

What ideas worked the best to protect the egg? Why do you think they worked? (Ask students to think about the transfer of energy. For instance, a parachute limits acceleration by causing some of the energy to dissipate due to air having friction with the parachute. This friction causes an upward force that limits acceleration.) Straw Boats Challenge– Design a boat made from nothing but straws and tape, and see how many items it can hold before it sinks. Natural disasters happen all over the world and can cause extreme damage and loss of life. The safe and accurate delivery of life-sustaining supplies to disaster relief efforts or military supply locations is an unpredictable real-world design challenge. Using the engineering design process, limited supplies and an egg to represent perishable supplies, students design, create and test their devices in an effort to investigate problems associated with supply delivery in remote regions. They mimic the process engineers use when designing devices for airdrop supplies.

Set out enough tables so there’s one for each group (where people are in groups of between three and five people). Shape Experiment: Explore the impact of the shape of the container on the egg’s safety. Students can create different shapes, such as cubes, spheres, or pyramids, and see which one works best. Children will be required to select six different materials to wrap around an egg and predict which one will be the best at protecting the egg.

Kids were instructed to bring in materials from home for their egg contraptions.This year we changed the rules up a bit and eliminated a few materials the kids usually use in their egg contraptions- no boxes and no battery powered items. In addition to the information below, the associated lesson, Move It!, provides an introduction to this activity. The activity motivation is also discussed in the Assessment and Lesson Extension sections.) As a class, plot the distances away from the target that each egg lands, with the height on the x-axis and the distance away from the target on the y-axis. Use different colors to plot the different groups, and discuss reasons why some designs may have been more accurate than others. How does the accuracy change as the height is increased? Introduce the engineering design process by showing the students the image below, or write out the seven steps in a circle on the board. Explain that engineers use the engineering design process to solve problems and that the process is iterative and helps then learn from failure.

All human activity draws on natural resources and has both short and long-term consequences, positive as well as negative, for the health of people and the natural environment. Children will then drop each egg, investigating the best material, and finally complete their table of results. Activity Sheet - Children can use this to help guide their design choices. It includes a handy space where they can draw out their design before attempting to make it. It even has plenty of prompt questions to help them improve their design. In this fun STEM egg drop challenge students will use, make, and assemble a protective structure to save an egg from breaking. Real-world STEM challenge lesson but don’t know where to start? Our easy-to-follow template shows the steps!