By Jaala Al-Haffar
He calls it the “Super Bowl” of all challenge labs.
He claims it’s the biggest day of the eighth grade year.
Mr. Andrew Simon and the other eighth grade science teachers purposely withhold important information about physics labs to see what students’ minds can come up with and create.
“It builds up the pressure and makes it more fun,” Billy Freudenthal, eighth grade, said.
Chase Southard, another eighth grader said, “It makes the challenge more exciting and makes us look forward to it.”
This “Super Bowl” of physics lab will be the egg drop.
The drop is going to be roughly six meters high. All eighth grade students have to come up with a creative way to drop the egg to the ground without causing it to shatter in pieces. The egg drop will take place on Thursday, October 17 during each science class.
The lab teaches the students about force and how to change time by not focusing on the drop but on the time it takes to get to the concrete, and how to slow that down.
Ms. Gretchen Smiley, eighth grade science teacher, says that she loves physics labs. Her favorite egg drop structure she has seen is, of course, the one all the science teachers made together. Mrs. Susan Fulp, eighth grade science teacher, says this challenge is one of her favorites throughout the whole year.
Science teachers have been helping the students prepare for the lab by making them do similar projects but with potato chips.The teachers are looking forward to all the creativity that will come out of the students during the lab and the willingness from the students.
He claims it’s the biggest day of the eighth grade year.
Mr. Andrew Simon and the other eighth grade science teachers purposely withhold important information about physics labs to see what students’ minds can come up with and create.
“It builds up the pressure and makes it more fun,” Billy Freudenthal, eighth grade, said.
Chase Southard, another eighth grader said, “It makes the challenge more exciting and makes us look forward to it.”
This “Super Bowl” of physics lab will be the egg drop.
The drop is going to be roughly six meters high. All eighth grade students have to come up with a creative way to drop the egg to the ground without causing it to shatter in pieces. The egg drop will take place on Thursday, October 17 during each science class.
The lab teaches the students about force and how to change time by not focusing on the drop but on the time it takes to get to the concrete, and how to slow that down.
Ms. Gretchen Smiley, eighth grade science teacher, says that she loves physics labs. Her favorite egg drop structure she has seen is, of course, the one all the science teachers made together. Mrs. Susan Fulp, eighth grade science teacher, says this challenge is one of her favorites throughout the whole year.
Science teachers have been helping the students prepare for the lab by making them do similar projects but with potato chips.The teachers are looking forward to all the creativity that will come out of the students during the lab and the willingness from the students.