Engaging Lesson Study: Three-Egg Drop

For this project, I made a capsule for an egg that is to be dropped from about twenty feet. This capsule that I made was not what I was thinking at first but when I started to build it, I saw that this capsule would hold better than the one that I was thinking which was a triangular capsule with the egg in the middle but I saw later one that the egg would break if it hit one of the flat sides. The capsule is a cube that is made out of the tongue depressors and I used most of the yarn for the big cage and I used the Elmer’s glue to glue the tongue depressors together. I used pieces of the paper clips to hold the popsicle sticks together with the tongue depressors and some

We had to do an egg drop so when it is dropped from 20 ft it wouldn’t crack.. But I really didn’t have any background knowledge on egg drops because I never did one. But I did know that by putting a plate on the bottom it would make it float down and not fall. So when it was dropped from 20ft it wouldn’t crack.

The purpose behind the egg drop project is for students to understand the concept of momentum, collision, impulse and force. To do this, they will create a protective carrier that will surround the egg. The egg will then be dropped from a certain height. The device that is created should weigh enough to increase the time of impact, therefore decreasing the force of impact on the egg so it doesn’t crack.

Our egg drop was designed with many strategies in mind. One of them was to build our design with as many triangles as possible due to the triangle being the strongest geometric shape due to their ability to distribute force evenly to all three sides. This would spread the force off the impact on the floor throughout the structure making it when it fell no one point would get the full blow of the impact. Another tactic used when building our structure was trying to make it symmetrical. So that if it rolled while falling there would be no weak points for the structure to fall onto. Another tactic used when building the design was building out around the egg so that when dropped the structure would bounce and the force

The egg drop project is designed to use what we have learned in science and apply it to a more hands on project. The goal is to keep a raw egg from cracking or breaking after a 3 meter drop. There are quite a few constraints that go along with this project such as materials, time management, and deadlines. The only materials allowed to be used on this project are; 10 straws, 2 sheets of paper, 30 cm of tape, 5 Kleenexes, 1 sandwich sized plastic bag, 25 cotton balls, and 50 cm of string. The plastic bag must be used to contain the egg in case of breakage and the final product must fit into a 15 cm cube. All of the building work must be done in class.

I would incorporate the think-pair-share technique into the “Activities and Procedures” portion of the lesson. The fourth bullet in this portion of the lesson plan states that the children will brainstorm ideas for comparing and contrasting Chewandswallow to a real

One aspect of my lesson that I felt went well in the implementation of my lesson was the information being grasped by the learners. Before I began my lesson, I asked the learners some questions about the fun phonics letter. I started off by asking the children if they knew what the fun phonic letter for the week was, then I asked them to tell me some words that begins with the letter “Dd”. Next, I read a story called “Harry the dirty dog”. Throughout the story I asked some questions to keep the learners engaged. I asked them questions like “what words that begins with the letter “Dd” did you hear?” I can tell they were engaged because their answers were never off topic. The learners were so excited about the end result of their letter “Dd”

In the 1920’s Miss Lillie P. Bliss, Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., created The Museum of Modern Art in 1929. Its founding director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., wanted the Museum to be dedicated to helping people understand and enjoy the visual arts of our time, and that it might provide New York with “the greatest museum of modern art in the world.”MoMA also owns about two million film stills. The Museum has a collection of modern and contemporary art exhibitions with a wide range of subject matter, mediums, and time periods, highlighting significant recent developments in the visual arts and new interpretations of major artists and art historical movements.The Museum is dedicated to its role as an educational institution and provides a program of activities set out to help both the general public and special segments of the community in approaching and understanding the world of modern and contemporary art. Today, The Museum of Modern Art welcome millions of visitors every year.

The egg baby activity was an activity I particularly enjoyed doing in my college career. I am actually familiar with the care taking process for my egg, since I was assigned this type of project before while I was in high school; the only difference was that I had a partner for this experience. So to explain the process for caring for my baby was fairly simple, my partner, Lily, had a schedule that was the opposite of mine and we would switch off caring for the baby evenly. She had the baby one day and I would have him the next. Having to switch off between days primarily reminded me of how actual couples would have to raise children due to custody cases, in which some are not as lenient as switching off between parents like it was for this project. So the challenging part of this activity

In the allegorical novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, the farm animals at Manor Farm revolted against their totalitarian human owners for complete authority over the farm. Once achieving victory, a pig named Napoleon rises to power. Napoleon uses his dictator like characteristics to rule over the newly named Animal Farm and inculcate fear into the other animals as well as force them into submission. Propaganda is used numerous times and in numerous methods throughout Animal Farm, including to force other animals to toil strenuously and surmise that Napoleon is a fair and candid leader. Napoleon’s oppressive commandments on the farm cause the other animals to have no choice but to obey his laws and do whatever he asks of them, no matter the

As another work week approaches, many teachers struggle with how they are going to accommodate to many of their student’s needs within the classroom; however, with adequate planning and the amazing ability of technology today I will succeed. As my third graders scurry into the classroom they immediately feel the atmosphere with laughing and a sense of innocence. On the outside they all look like a normal 8 year old who loves recess and intriguing science projects; however, their learning ability is vastly different which is where different learning resources come in to play.

During student teaching both of my placements were in math classrooms. With math being my endorsement, having a strong understanding of the content and knowing different methods (standards I & XII) lead to success with my students As a future teacher, I believe these two standards are the most important. I need to create learning experiences that are meaningful and age appropriate for my students. I created a lesson for my 8th grade students that showed the importance of content and methods of teaching. In this lesson, students had to solve questions involving the 8th grade math standards, but the questions were made in puzzle pieces. Students had to match the question and answers, making a shape once the problems were completed. This is called a tangram, which is a concept students had learned in an earlier grade. This lesson used a variety of strategies and met the needs of my diverse learners (standards III & V). The puzzle pieces had students use creative thinking and

Conversely, it was not going well at the start of the activity because Jenny tried to create mixture colours then the mixture colours became dark coulours which could not see whether the second layer was sits on the bottom layer. This mistake would not happen in the future as I will show the children the way to do this activity and they can practice by themselves. At last, it is important to find an experiment that children feel interesting so they would engage within the experiment. In contrast, students will fail to learn if they feel disinterested, tired and scared in a science inquiry

The debate over the legal status of controlled substances in the Unites States of America has been argued for decades. Could there really be one end-all, be-all solution to this heated struggle between politicians, law enforcement, and the public at large? Maybe not. But perhaps there is a better answer to the overwhelming drug addiction epidemic in the US today than the stereotypical “War on Drugs”. A spectrum analysis of the effects of drug laws on society and a consideration of arguments both for and against drug legalization make it easy for one to support a campaign to repeal federal policies that criminalize narcotics (such as heroin), stimulants (such as cocaine), and other recreationally used drugs (like marijuana).

Understanding cognition and how we learn is essential in the developmental stages of children. Not all students learn in the same way, understanding the cognitive process will assist in the development of the students. By modifying my approach when giving instructions I have noticed growth in current students that I am working with. Using concrete materials and giving the opportunity for students to be involved in hands-on activities on a daily basis, is essential in making new material meaningful to learners.. The knowledge gained from this topic has increased my understanding and is benefiting the children I am currently