Expert: Sue Kayton Date: 1/9/2008 Subject: egg drop science fair project
Question My son is in 4th grade. He is doing an egg drop experiment for his science fair project. The teacher gave back the proposal and asked how he was going to graph the results. How would I graph this? He's going to make a container and drop it from different heights. He will drop it three times from each height. The result is whether or not the egg survives. I'm not sure how you would graph this. Any ideas? Thanks!
Answer This is a classic example of why English majors should not be allowed to teach science. Obviously there's nothing to graph when we are dealing with just one student's project.
But you can graph the results from the entire class. You could graph weight v. height where it broke. You could ask each student how much time they spend designing and building and graph time v. survival height. Etc.
