Marvelous Monday! : Egg Drop

For this experiment, I set up a glass of water with a pie plate on top.  On top of that I centered the cardboard from a roll of toilet paper directly above the water and balanced a raw egg on top.

 

Now for the fun part!  The object of this exercise is to get the egg into the glass of water, without breaking it, by removing the plate and the cardboard.  This is done by giving the plate, and only the plate, a good whack!

We did have a few misses... 

This is an experiment that can definitely be tried at home - just be sure to use non-breakable plates and glasses - and make sure that someone in your house wasn't going to use the eggs to make a cake!