Week 5 Blog

 Olivia Langosch

We started out with straw and sand, straw on bottom and sand on top, and the egg fell out of bowl. We tried to make an indent in the sand to make it stop from falling out of the bowl, and the egg ended up cracking. we switched the order, and put the sand at the bottom and the straw on top, and it landed perfectly, at one meter. 

For two meters, we started out with the sam design, sand at the bottom and straw at the top, but added a bit more straw. it ended up falling out again, and it cracked a little bit. We tried it again with less straw, and the egg ended up cracking through the bag. 

The big question that we talked about in class was "How can we design a safe and durable playground surface?" By practicing and coming up with different ideas with each other at our table group, we figured out that creating a surface that had some cushion, but not too much was the best way to make sure the egg was safe. We figured this out because we created that indent in the sand for the egg to drop and stay in the bowl, but when we did that, the egg stayed, but it unfortunately cracked.