Egg Drop Experiment | Summer Lit League

Incoming! The egg drop experiment is a fun activity to do with your kids to teach them about gravity and resistance. If you want to avoid making a mess with this classic activity, try using a hard-boiled or plastic egg. This activity comes with inspiration from Science Sparks

Supplies:  

• Bin bag/plastic sheet/paper or other flat material. 
• (4) Four pieces of string 
• Masking tape 
• Egg (hard-boiled) or plastic that can be filled with beans for weight. 
• Cardboard made into a basket shape or a small plastic container 
• Colored markers 
• Beans or corn to fill plastic eggs to give them weight 
• Balloon 

Recommended Books:  

• Planets and moons by Catherine C. Finan
• Life in space by Catherine C. Finan
• Mars rovers by Jessica Cohn
• Space explorers by Libby Jackson
• Can you hear a penguin fart on Mars? by Jim Benton
• Physics for Kids: Science Experiments and Activities Inspired by Awesome Physicists, Past and Present by Liz Lee Heinecke
• The Ups and Downs of Gravity by David A. Adler, Illustrated by Anna Raff
• Packing for Mars for Kids by Mary Roach
• Gravity’s Fatal Attraction: Black Holes in the Universe by Mitchell C. Begelman 
• The Gravity Tree: The True Story of a Tree That Inspired the World by Anna Crowley Redding
• Simply Quantum Physics by Gerhard, Karyn, 
• The Science of Defying Gravity by L. G. Reed

Suggested Website Links:      

https://www.science-sparks.com/gravity-and-air-resistance/