Protect your egg

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Description

It’s down to you to protect your egg from your leader. There are plenty of materials available – what will you use?
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Resources

Cotton wool balls
Scissors
Sticky tape
Eggs
Newspaper
Bubble wrap
Cotton wool
Egg boxes
Packing peanuts
Sticky tape
Cloths
Disinfectant spray

Instructions

Before you begin
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Set out enough tables so there’s one for each group (where people are in groups of between three and five people).
Put an identical set of equipment and materials on each table.
Make sure you have enough helpers for each team.
Make sure you have some spare eggs, in case any of the teams break theirs while trying to protect it.

Protect the egg
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The person leading the activity should show everyone how easily an egg breaks by cracking it into a bowl or dropping it onto a table.
Everyone should stand back if you drop the egg. Make sure you clean it up straight away.
Everyone should split into small groups; each group should go to a table.
Each group should touch and feel the materials on their table and decide together which ones they’ll use to protect their egg.
Each group should work together to protect their egg.

Test the egg protection
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Everyone should gather together. The person leading the activity should cover the drop zone with some newspaper to make it easier to clean up any mess.
Everyone should stand back from the drop zone (and the splash zone!). They should count down from three to zero.
When everyone reaches zero, the person leading the activity should drop the egg from at least two metres high.
You could use a stepladder. Only adults should climb up high.
Everyone should count down before the person leading the game drops each egg. The person leading the activity should drop all of the eggs from the same height.
The person leading the activity should check all of the eggs for damage. Everyone should talk about which materials worked best.
If there’s time, people may want to protect another egg in their teams. Can they use what they’ve learned about materials and techniques to make the best possible protection?


NOTE: to complete the BUILDER ACTIVITY BADGE build in the badge requirements into the instructions (such as draw the design, make a list).


Tags

  • creative
  • Make things

Badge Links

  • Builder - Build
  • Builder - Design
  • Builder - Explain
  • Builder - List
  • Experiment - Experiment
  • Skills - Creative activity
  • Skills - Problem solving
  • Teamwork - Challenge