Inspiration
This was a direct follow up to the gravity experiments of the previous week. I took a cue from the PBS program Fetch where they give the kids materials, a goal and a bunch of building materials and mostly turn them loose.
Materials
2 hard boiled eggs - for the early test
1 raw egg - more if you're brave & feeling messy enough to use raw for their first drafts
bags, papers, tape, egg cartons, coffee filters, napkins, staples, scissors, hole punchers, and anything else that comes to mind.
Notes
Lana started with strings tied to paper coffee filters attached to a single cup egg carton basket. When that failed with solid crash Noelle upgraded the chute size to a plastic grocery bag attached to another single carton basket. They had to upgrade from tape to staples to hold the bag on to the basket by the handles but once she got those secured it worked like a champ. A few successful drops and we upgraded to the raw egg without incident from the playhouse and on to the bedroom window of our real house for the finale. I loved how they continued to refine their ideas both based on successes and failures which is so important to learn.
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