STEP 1: Determining the goal: When we were told to come up with a plan
to design a nest or whatever to prevent the egg from cracking when drop
from a high distant with just straws and tapes under 20 something minute
planning and 10 minute to create.Half the egg must be visible and with
lots of pressure involved.This was a very hard task.
STEP 2: Knowing our only resources are straws and tapes,my group and I
first asked each other, see if anyone has any great ideas or not.
STEP3: develop the strategies:We all contributed what we had in mind
with building a half nest to protect the egg.And then two other member
of the group came up with something to support the egg from hitting
the ground by producing something like legs with the straws.We combined
those two ideas and created our rocket egg. None of us were great artists
so we scrambled something that was close to the structure and we wasted
the whole front and back of the piece of paper.
STEP 4: Before we got the resources to perform the task, we also talked
about who 's the shortest and has a great sense of balance to go and
drop the egg.Then when we got the straws and tapes and started to build
the model we all went crazy and kept rushing because there was
no time. We wrapped half the egg with straws circling around it and made
a cap like bottom with extended straws to separate the distance of egg from
the ground. We needed the scissors to cut the Straws to make the legs but
that one scissors was nowhere to be found and a member of our group
was like "we need a plan B" since we can't get our hands on that
scissors. So we did our best to make those legs without the scissors,
it's just that it's longer and we decided that the extended straws
will play the part of a defense around the egg. (which at the end we
found that it was useless.)
STEP 5: When the time was ticking with just seconds left the member of
our group rushed to make those legs steady and supportive enough to not
bend with tapes allover it and make sure the egg doesn't slips out of the
straws nest.up to perform the egg dropping. Our egg unfortunately was no
success. The misfortune may have been caused due to the balance of how
the egg was dropped and the way we put the egg together was not protective
enough for the egg to survive the gravity pull and force pushed around it.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Planning egg-drop process
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Anyways it was fun activity, wasn't it? The thing is that you can build legs to protect the egg in the bottom, but nothing assures you that the egg is going to fall in the direction you drop it. one side of the basket could have been a bit heavier than the others so it tends to pull the egg down that way. But the idea of letting the shortest of the group to drop the egg was smart. And at least you guys tried hard
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