We did the same old egg experiment except that the egg holders were to be flung, like Politzania’s teachers had. I suspended the egg in a wooden pyramid frame covered with several layers of tape and held in the middle by a couple shoelaces (kind of hard to picture, kind of hard to make). The shoelace held together a single paper egg cart piece, top and bottom. There was a catch to this experiment, though: you have to be able to remove the egg in under 5 seconds once the container had landed. So when the egg fell, I just untied the shoelace and popped out an unbroken egg. Kind of complicated for the sixth grade, but it worked and I got an “A” in science.
Thanks, dad!
Peanut butter jar, inside of which was a plasic bag full of Jello (orange), inside of which was the egg. Cottonballs held the jellobag in the middle of the peanut butter jar, and there were cottonballs taped around the outside of the jar. It worked.
When we did this experiment, one group wrapped it in a bunch of underlay carpet. People were jumping on the thing and it wouldn’t break.