The Brown Bag Challenge II- Pringle Pod

I always thought that the Egg Drop was a really cool project. You know, the one where you design a protective pod for a raw egg and then drop it from a balcony to see if it worked?

Fantastic…until you factor in the children and well, the actual raw eggs. Then it all goes downhill rather fast. So I’ve been thinking of ways to modify this activity so that it is more sanitary and less messy. Voila! Pringle Pod.

Following their criteria and constraints, students work in pairs or teams to construct a protective pod for their pringle. The criteria for success is the same as the Egg Drop- that the pringle will not break. Great challenge…with a lot less mess!

The Brown Bag STEM Challenge design challenges focus on some key STEM concepts like critical thinking and problem solving, all while being low-cost to implement. This sequel series contains all of the same elements (design briefs, NGSS alignment, Interactive STEM Notebook pages, etc.) as the original, but with new challenges!

So, what did we learn?
Next Generation Science Standards: SEP- Planning and Carrying Out Investigations, Defining Problems, Analyzing and Interpreting Data; CCC- Patterns, Cause and Effect

CCSS Math: Cause and Effect, Scale, Proportion and Quantity, Measurement and Data, Expressions and Equations