Speed, Eggs and Slam!

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In this fun hands-on activity, learners create a safety device to protect an egg "passenger" in a toy car crash. Learners experiment with different solutions to this very problem. Includes instructions for analyzing success both by passenger safety and cost of building design. The goal is to build affordably while keeping your egg safe! This activity also introduces learners to Newton's First Law of Motion. [Activity is publicly available through a web crawler capture on Archive.org. Activity write-up only, images are unavailable.]

Quick Guide

Preparation Time:
5 to 10 minutes
Learning Time:
10 to 30 minutes
Estimated Materials Cost:
$1 - $5 per student
Age Range:
Ages 6 - 11
Resource Types:
Activity, Simulation
Language:
French

Materials List (per student)

  • Toy Truck (one big enough for your egg to fit into a pick-up/dump truck works best)
  • Raw Eggs
  • Magic Marker
  • Ramp for truck (a board propped on a chair works).
  • Brick or heavy item for your truck to crash into (if you don’t want it to run into the wall).
  • Large piece of plastic or a large garbage bag (to cover your work surface).
  • Sheet of paper and a pencil
  • String
  • Rubber bands
  • Cotton balls
  • Tape
  • Toothpicks
  • Styrofoam cup

Keywords

Subjects

  • Engineering and Technology
    • Engineering
      • Transportation Engineering
  • Mathematics
    • Data Analysis and Probability
      • Data Analysis
      • Data Collection
  • Physical Sciences
    • Motion and Forces
      • Newton's Laws

Informal Categories

  • Toys
  • Transportation

Audience

To use this activity, learners need to:

  • see
  • touch

Learning styles supported:

  • Uses STEM to solve real-world problems
  • Involves hands-on or lab activities

Other

Access Rights:

  • Free access

By:

  • National Science Center (Fort Discovery)

Source Collection

  • TryScience

Rights:

  • All rights reserved, National Science Center (Fort Discovery),