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Question:
In an experiment you always start with a
question or wondering, even something you
want to test. In this case it was ‘how can we Observations:
keep an egg from breaking when dropped from Then we observe what sort of things can absorb
a height. force or lessen gravity. We need these sorts of
things if we don’t want the egg to break. We also
know that if the egg bounces off the floor, it breaks.
We chose folded paper to absorb force and straws
to keep it from bouncing. Observations are also
Hypothesis: what we already know.
The hypothesis is a statement of what will happen
and it has to make sense. It really is just a guess but
it’s at least an educated guess. Our hypothesis was
‘our egg will not break because the folded paper will
absorb the force, straws will keep it from bouncing
and clay will cushion it.
Experiment:
Doing the experiment is seeing if our hypothesis can be
proved. The whole thing must be organised
and results must be recorded. We made our contraption
(egg covered in bubble wrap in 2 layers of folded paper,
coated with clay and straws sticking out) and threw it out
the window for the test. Mr. Glenn videoed it all.