The classic egg drop science experiment has gotten a big update, thanks to a new study. Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studied the best way to drop a chicken egg to prevent ...

The egg-drop experiment is a staple topic in science classes. Students find ways to protect an egg from breaking when dropped from a certain height. Traditionally, textbooks have explained that ...

Feedback still gets pulse-raising flashbacks to the lockdown of early 2020, when we were home-educating Feedback Jr and consequently had to teach said child how to do things that we didn’t ourselves ...

Is a raw egg more fragile when it falls upright or lying on its side? It's a question that's relevant not only for kitchen mishaps, but above all for anyone taking part in the so-called Egg Drop ...

The egg drop contest was one of my favorite units to teach when I was a middle school science teacher. Then the 7th grade science teacher stole it! What to do? Create a unit investigating acceleration ...

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