WHAT MATERIAL PROTECTS AN EGG THE BEST?

PURPOSEThe reason we are doing this project is to see what

material will protect a hard boiled egg: bubble wrap, toilet paper, or Bounty paper towels.

HypothesisWe think that bubble wrap will protect the egg best because companies put bubble wrap in boxes that have glass to protect it so the egg will be the glass and be protected by the bubble wrap.

THE MATERIALS

1.9 hard boiled eggs 2.Bubblewrap 3.Cottenelle toilet

paper 4.Bownty paper

towels. 5.3 rubber bands. 6.The Computer.

THE PROCEDURES 1.Buy Bubble Wrap. 2.Bring in Cottenelle toilet paper. 3.Bring in Bounty paper towels. 4. Bring in nine hard boiled eggs & 3 rubber

bands 5.Wrap the eggs in paper towels , toilet

paper, and bubble wrap with 12 square inches of each material.

6.Get a ladder and place it up 7.Climb the ladder and drop the eggs from

shoulder height.

THE PROCEDURES 8.Repeat that step three times 9.Go in the classroom and check to see witch

one of the materials out of all 3 trials cracked the least.

10.Make a chart of your results.

GRAPHED RESULTS

Bubble Wrap Toilet Paper Paper Towels0

0.5

1

1.5

2

2.5

3

3.5

Trial 1Trial 2Trial 3

What protects an egg the best?

Scale of protection 1=least3=best

Material used to protect the egg

CONCLUSION

My hypothesis was wrong. You see I thought bubble wrap would protect it and it didn`t protect it one bit. Toilet paper protected the egg the best. You see the impact was to hard for the bubble wrap. So when it hit the ground all the little bubbles popped and the egg was not protected but the toilet paper held through and protected the egg. You see I checked all the eggs and the toilet paper had a little crack but the bubble wraps eggs had busted open and there was no protection.

CONCLUSION

The paper towels protected the egg better than the bubble wrap. The paper towels were perforated. What we would do different is use more material like the bubble wrap maybe it wouldn’t crack as much.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We would like to thank Mrs. Larsen, Patty and Delano Sarchet for the bubble wrap. We would like to thank Dave Arnold. We would also like to thank Julie and Steve Lach.

By Amber Sarchet and Stevie Lach. Mrs. Larsen`s Grade 6