Eggstronaut Drop!!!

Monday, February 27, 2012

This morning we had our Eggstronaut Drop! We dropped our eggs from the second story stairwell. We counted down 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, BLASTOFF!!! for each egg we dropped. After all the eggs were dropped, the kids picked up their egg capsules. We then sat on a tarp in our pod to find out if the astronauts had survived.

Here are pictures from our drop!

Here are pictures of the surviving astronauts!

Here are the astronauts who didn’t survive!


We held this astronaut drop so kids can see what important jobs engineers have in designing space capsules to keep our astronauts safe in their travels in space. After our egg drop we discussed why some astronauts survived and why other astronauts did not survive. These are some of the changes the kids will make for next time: Jacob R will put a more protective surface over the sponge so that the egg will stay safe even if other capsules fall on it. Maria would add a parachute to her space capsule so it has a better landing. Maddy, Josie, and Braeden suggested putting more padding such as tissue paper or bubblewrap inside their capsules.
Austin thinks his eggstronaut survived because he placed his egg in two different containers which gave it two layers of protection. Charlie used paper towels, shredded paper, a container, and a parachute to provide a safe landing for his eggstronaut. Aleah squeezed her egg into a paper towel roll. She wrapped her paper towel roll in layers of feathers and then put it in a strawberry container. She thinks her eggstronaut survived because it had a lot of soft padding for protection.