Physics Egg Drop Project

Every year students enrolled in Physics are assigned the Egg Drop project. Students are required to design and build a device that will protect an egg from three drops which includes 1 m, 2 m and 5.5 m otherwise known as the roof of the school building.
  
According to Physics teacher Amy Morriss, this project allows students to apply the engineering design process and to develop a better understanding of momentum, impulse and conservation of energy along the way.

Students research different design options, provide evidence of testing, document their process and write an explanation of how their design employs the concepts of impulse and momentum. On the day of the drop, in addition to testing their device, they complete calculations to show how energy is conserved and how fast their egg travels based on the height.