At the end of March, Henry had to bring a raw egg in a container that he believed would protect the egg in a drop from the school balcony. Honestly, Henry really wasn't very interested in discussing ideas for this project, so we watched some videos on youtube to give us a starting point. We decided to go with the Nerf football plan, but then I saw how much a Nerf football cost...I didn't feel like spending $15 on a football so that we could cut it down to the project dimensions. So we switched to the flour-filled-box idea...that is, until we discovered Dottie had chewed our old Nerf football down to the needed dimensions! We hallowed out a spot inside to hold the egg, taped it closed and then dropped it from our house's balcony (as snow flakes and rain started to fall). The egg survived so all we had to do was wait for the big day.
Henry dropping his egg and container.
Watching the rest of his classmates do their egg drops.
Back in the classroom, opening up the football. The egg was still in one piece but the shell was cracked - I guess I should have used a different egg instead of using the one we dropped at home. :)
Some of his friends checking on their eggs - they loved it when an egg was broken and gooey! There were actually a few kids whose eggs' survived the original fall, only to be broken when the child took it out of the container and accidentally dropped it on the classroom carpet!
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