As a prelude to our Desination Imagination challenge, I decide to challenge my students with an oldie but a goodie for fun and some team building.
DI students and Mini 9 IT students tackle the Egg Zorb challenge. The students need to draw their team logo on their egg, then build a capsule to house the egg that will eventually go out the window and down to the ground.
Lesson Plan Outline:
Egg Zorb
Purpose: Discuss, design, plan, do. Team Building, time management, collaboration and communication.
Time Limit: 60 mins
Materials:
1 – note paper
1 – design sheet
1 – egg
1 – 1 metre piece of tape
10 – 8X11 sheet of paper
1 – electronic scale
1 – tape measure
1 – metre stick
Challenge 1
Decorate your egg with your team name logo. You must do so without smudging the colour unless it is on purpose.
Make sure Mr. Su takes a picture
Challenge 2
Research
Design your capsule.
You must present and discuss your method and rationale
Challenge 3
Weigh your egg and record all measurement
Challenge 4
Build your capsule and place the egg inside
Measure the total weight
Challenge 5
Measure height of fall
Challenge 6
Test
Challenge 7 – Super bonus
Do the math
Height
Weight
Acceleration
Force on impact
Bonus: Coefficient of friction
Results:
Some beautifully designed zorb/capsule/wrappers.
Some great discussion and team building.
Some great art.
A ton of fun!!!