News & Notes
e Incredible Egg
e egg drop has been a tradition at the lower school for more than
20 years. It is an engineering and design challenge that engages
fourth-grade students in approaching a problem, considering
multiple solutions, testing ideas and materials, and considering ideas
for redesign. During science class, students work in teams to design
a container that will protect an uncooked egg from breaking when
dropped from a height of two stories in the middle school stairwell.
Watching them put their heads together to come up with a design,
share ideas and celebrate successes is what learning is all about. e
students then design their outdoor egg-drop containers at home.
ere is a size constraint, and no battery-powered devices are
allowed, but other than that, the students have many, many options
for their designs. In May, the students visited Lower School Director
Julie Brooks' oce, climbed out the window onto the balcony, and
dropped their containers to the cobblestone patio below the lower
school annex. Although not all the eggs survived, there were smiles,
cheers, and words of congratulations for the students whose eggs
were intact after the drop.
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