Egg drop parachute

Save your omelette!

Did you plan on having an omelette this evening? Hmm, sounds delicious! But here’s your mission: find a way to prevent your egg from being crushed by safely dropping an egg with a parachute from a high location. Creativity and collaboration will abound so that your young physicists can save dinner! The fight against gravity, conversion of potential energy into kinetic energy, transfer of energy and damping…So many concepts learned and lots of guaranteed fun! Note: our eggs are plastic.

Objectives at the elementary level:

  • Describe and experiment on the effect of gravity when an egg in plastic is dropped.
  • Understand the principle of gravitational potential energy.
  • Discover ways to counteract the force of gravity to protect the egg.

Objectives at the secondary level:

  • Describe qualitatively the relationship between the potential energy of a body, its mass, gravitational acceleration and its displacement.
  • Define gravitation as a mutual force of attraction between two bodies.

Our needs

  • 6 teams must be created before the science animator arrives.

Additional charges

  • Travel costs (minimum $ 25) based on distance apply.
  • In 60-minute workshops, if there are more than 5 groups on schedule, the workshops will be spread over more than one day and the transportation costs will have to be adjusted accordingly.
  • In 90-minute workshops, if there are more than 4 groups on the schedule, the workshops will be spread over more than one day and the transportation costs will have to be adjusted accordingly.
  • Additional fees will be charged if there is a delay of more than 90 minutes between two workshops.

175.00$272.00$

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