CYBER.ORG™ Discover Egg Drop Kit

Grades 7.

This kit is for use with Cyber.org (formerly NICERC) STEM curriculum, offered free at Cyber.org. First, visit that site and choose your curriculum. Then, find the corresponding materials kits and consumables refills at NascoEducation.com.

Students will design a vessel with a parachute to model protective gear for a skydiver. Students will use the engineering design process as a guide to research concepts related to objects falling from a specific height, brainstorm ideas for creating a vessel with a parachute, build, and test their own vessel that will hold an egg. Throughout the module students will discover topics on kinetic energy, potential energy, gravity, velocity, mass, and drag. This kit contains enough materials for 10 groups. Access to curricula materials can be found at http://www.cyber.org.

Materials in this kit include: rubber bands, paper clips, cardstock, straws, twine, plastic eggs, modeling clay, and garbage bags.

The product image is representative of the types of materials included in the kit. Specific components may vary.