Photos: Students perform gravity egg-speriment

Published: Tuesday, April 3 2012 1:32 p.m. MDT

Mary Minardi, custodian at Westvale Elementary School, drops a case with an egg in it from the roof of the school in West Jordan, Tuesday, April 3, 2012. The cases were made by second-grade students to see if they could protect the eggs.

Ravell Call, Deseret News

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Summary

Students at Westvale Elementary performed an experiment in which they made special cases and filled them with eggs, then the eggs were dropped off the roof of the school to see whether they would break

WEST JORDAN — Students at Westvale Elementary on Tuesday tried to see if their projects were everything they're cracked up to be.

Second-grade students performed the first egg drop from the roof of their school. The students have been learning about the effects of gravity and were challenged by their teachers to come up with a creative way to test their skills.

Teachers dropped eggs from the top of the school, and the eggs were in protective cases made by students. The students wanted to see if the cases they made will protect the eggs from cracking when they hit the ground.

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