And the winner is...

Well, the egg drop challenge was a success! The kids both designed and built their egg cradle and dropped it from their playset. It took three trys, but we finally managed to successfully land an egg without breaking it. We talked about Gravity, Inertia, Mass, and shock absorbers. They decided that straws were not enough of a "shock absorber" once the egg hit the hard ground. :) The kids did so well. We compared an elephant and a mouse and which one would have more inertia. Scarlett summed it up pretty well "the elephant has more 'nertia because it is fat."

Here is Scarlett working hard to put her egg cradle together. They learned really quick how important a parachute was and how it could slow down the fall of the egg.

Our first unsuccessfull attempt to drop an egg. It was pretty messy. Of course Scarlett was right in the middle of the mess.

and finally a successfull egg drop. Yippee!

Then we talked out objects traveling at the same rate of speed. It was so neat to watch them hypothesis that the big ball would land before the egg. Once the test was over they concluded it was a tie. That objects dropped from the same height WILL hit the ground at the same time.

Ethan wrote in his journal once school was over and I asked him to draw picture of what he had learned today. He learned that your MASS stayed the same even in space, hence the drawing of the person on the moon. :) and gravity is what brings things down, the person with a parachute falling to the ground.

They are both up early and ready to go on their first field trip! They are so excited. We are headed to the apple orchard. Today is Johnny Appleseeds Birthday, how appropriate it that! :)

Last time, we picked 40 pounds of apples!! We had apple pie, apple sauce, apple juice, caramel apples.. you name it we made it! Hopefully this time we will not pick quite so many apples.

Have a great day! I will post more pics later. :)