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