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Inquiry: Using an Egg Drop Activity to Promote Critical Thinking and Analysis Skills

Inquiry: Using an Egg Drop Activity to Promote Critical Thinking and Analysis Skills

In this hands-on inquiry activity, students will design and construct an apparatus that will permit an egg to survive a nine foot fall. Students are given limited materials, so they must critically think about the design and improvise strategies during the building of the apparatus

Keywords:
Physical Science, Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning, Scientific Observation, Process Oriented, Problem Solving, NSDL, Physics, SECscience, Guided Inquiry Learning, Education, Gravity, Scientific Process, Scientific Inquiry
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Material Type:
Assessment Tool
Date Added to MERLOT:
July 27, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:
June 22, 2018
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Submitter:
Barbra Bied Sperling
Hispanic Serving Institution
Primary Audience:
High School, College General Ed
Technical Format:
Website
Mobile Compatibility:
Not specified at this time
Language:
English
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No
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Creative Commons:
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States

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