The Egg Drop

The purpose of this lab is to allow students to practice the scientific method (the five core steps
and the two practical steps). Students will have to conduct an egg drop experiment. The catch is
that they must wrap the egg in a substance to prevent it from breaking. We will then drop the egg
from a TBD number of feet to determine if the chosen material was successful.

 Purpose: (15 pts)

o What is the purpose of doing this experiment (not just because I assigned it)?
o What have other people done in the past?
 What are the trends for successful drops?
 At least 3 examples (Provide links at the bottom): (MLA citations
i.e. author last name, pg. # or website and paragraph)
 What are the trends for an unsuccessful drop?
 At least 3 examples (Provide links at the bottom): (MLA citations
i.e. author last name, pg. # or website and paragraph)
o What are some of your classmates doing for their egg?
 At least 3 examples
 Why are they choosing their materials?
o What are you going to watch for?

 Observation: (10 pts)

o What do you notice about the egg?
 At least 3 characteristics
o What do you notice or know about the material you are using?
 At least 5 characteristics
 Research: (Provide links at the bottom): (MLA citations i.e. author last
name, pg. # or website and paragraph)

 Hypothesis: (15 pts)

o What substance do you think will prevent the egg from breaking?
o Why do you think your material will prevent the egg from breaking?
o What are the strengths of your material?
o What are the weaknesses of your material?

 Experiment: (15 pts)

o How are we going to test this?
o How high will the drop be (TBD)
o What are the materials involved?

 Data: (10 pts)

 o Did it crack?
o Pictures of the egg after the drop
o The three graphs
 Bar Graph (How heavy is your wrapped egg)
 Ex. 1-3 oz, 4-6 oz, 7-9 oz, …
 Pie (Cracked/cracked)
 Scatter plot (Trial number vs time to fall)
 Conclusion: (10 pts)
o What did you find out?
o What would you different?
 Different material?
 Different wrapping style?

 Bibliography: (10 pts)

o Cite your sources.

 Presentation: (10 pts)

o You are to do one of the following:
 Create a PowerPoint pertaining to the 5 core steps in correlation to this
experiment.
 Create a poster covering the 5 core steps and data.

 Grammar: (5 pts)
o No first person
o No use of contractions
o Proper Citation
o Proper Heading.