If only all teachers could inspire their students as much as you do.

Wonderful Experiments

I was a middle school science teacher here in New Zealand. I used to do your egg drop activity with my classes and it was highly successful. Bruce, to me you are an amazing and inspirational science teacher.

@YeanyScience

2 жыл бұрын

thanks Andrew I appreciate you kind words

Eggs must be variable in how easily they break. Types/batches of eggs must surely have different strengths. And of course how they land, on side or on end must influence if they break. It's a great project but some other uniform, breakable object would be more consistent. Not that I can think of what it would be. It was interesting to see all the techniques. Thanks for the enjoyable videos.

Hey Mr. Yaney. I had a bit of a laugh seeing this video today, as I just finished doing this exact project with my 5th graders using the same project parameters you gave us in 8th grade back in ‘07. Though we did borrow the hydraulic lift for our highest drop height abt. 10m. My students all say hello as we had watched the DIY Science contest episode the other day when I explained that you were one of my teachers in school. It was then I learned that one of them follow your videos here.

@YeanyScience

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Sami, it's been a few years but I remember you quite well and it's great to hear you went into education. Sounds like you've taken this activity to a higher level and I am very happy to hear that some of my lessons are finding their way forward. While I did retire 4 years ago, the person in my old position left at the end of January and I came out of retirement to help out for a few weeks (which appears to mean the 2nd half of the school year). Say hello to your class for me and all the best for the remainder of the school year.

@ahmad-murery

2 жыл бұрын

​@@YeanyScience As a teacher a comment like Sami's one means a lot to me, and as a student having a teacher like Bruce is one of the best thing I can dream of, Hellos to Bruce and Sami

@TheRadioAteMyTV

2 жыл бұрын

@@YeanyScience Thanks for the explanation. I was wondering if you had gone back to teaching because I had not seen this video before. I feel sorry for anyone coming into a class after you were the teacher. Who wants to play the stage after Elvis, Michael Jackson or Ozzy? The king is not an easy act to follow.

Love your vídeos . Much Love from Brazil 🇧🇷

Thanks for this great idea. My two younger sisters are doing school from home for the remainder of the year. So sad. But I’m gonna do this with them next week when the sun‘s out in the backyard. Thanks Bruce. You’re a good man spending your time the way you do.

Beautiful selection of materials. It is great that your school has such a big budget for materials.

@YeanyScience

2 жыл бұрын

Well, they did supply the masking tape and the paper is all recycled from other classes, otherwise little no budget. A problem I've had to deal with for most of my career. Eggs were donated since they were past the expiration date

Thank You... :)

Much better experiment. Well done Bruce

We did that from 50cm with 3D extruder pens, but limited by time and size of just a little more than the egg diameter.

Really made me miss 9th grade physics with Mr McGinn. Except for the day he made us watch "Threads" -- I mean I'm thankful for it but it definitely messed me up for a minute.

Ah, Impulse lessons. I learned them on this channel and still do them, mostly in the summer. I use water balloons instead of eggs. I have a problem with using animals or food for lessons where they go to waste, and water balloons do the same trick.

@YeanyScience

2 жыл бұрын

The eggs were donated, past their expiration date. I like you idea of the water balloons though.

Where would we be if it weren't for that flown walkway?

If part of a student's apparatus broke during one of the trial, would they be allowed to replace the broken material for the following trials? Or is part of the challenge that the apparatus has to survive all trials in order to pass them?

@YeanyScience

2 жыл бұрын

they can repair it for each additional trial

There was an advantage if you could get the egg to impact on one of it's ends vs the side. So multiple attempts should have been used to cancel out lucky lands.

@manp1039

2 жыл бұрын

is there a way to drop it so it will always land on one of its ends?

@WhuDhat

2 жыл бұрын

dosent the tube help with that?

So how liberal are the rules? My first choice would be try and make a series of collapsing nets with the string to slow the acceleration before it hits bottom. But added complexity means added chance for screw up.

@YeanyScience

2 жыл бұрын

list of materials is given, from that point on it's up to them how they design it

@sootikins

2 жыл бұрын

@@YeanyScience What do the rules say about "reconditioning" the device between attempts? For example I was thinking of using cups as "legs" under a box but slitting the cups so they absorb most of the impact by crushing. Obviously this would necessitate cup replacement between rounds.

Did you present the fundamental point for the design? Convert the eggs motion into heat.

@YeanyScience

2 жыл бұрын

newton's law of motion impulse, Galileo's ideas on acceleration of falling objects. Energy changes is in our next unit

RIP to the eggs that died for science 🤣❤

Here you have a contest and you don't display the results data.

I guess some of the students haven't read the contagion myth yet or know who Kary Mullis is? Unfortunate...

I prefer contests without such severe constraints on building materials. Having a maximum market value of materials constraint is fine. But to say they can only use certain materials is too limiting to creativity. The only thing that should be outright disallowed is materials that are dangerous to the participants or the audience.

@vennic

2 жыл бұрын

Like raw eggs

@vennic

2 жыл бұрын

and what about the turtles

@XJWill1

2 жыл бұрын

@@vennic Raw turtle eggs? I don't know the market value, but it shouldn't be too high unless it is a rare species of turtle.

@vennic

2 жыл бұрын

@@XJWill1 that's brilliant. Smash their unborn for science then impale them with the leftover straws

@Name-js5uq

2 жыл бұрын

Apparently you don't understand what he's trying to teach them the fact that he wants them to be creative and use certain items makes the children think and use their minds. That is what a good teacher does like Bruce. 👍

please get a mic. half the vid was unintelligible