EGGNAUT

This mission is to build a vehicle that protects your eggnaut a risk of reentry. The aim is that this eggnaut survive the flight and landing without be broken. This activity is specially designed for students from fifth grade through third ESO, which are responsible for building the eggnaut, and fourth ESO and Baccalaureate responsible for building the landing zone for eggnaut. I selected this project because I think the most fun and interesting to both young and old. Besides serving for fun, has some aspects of study where students can learn and work on them.

5th STUDENTS FROM PRIMARY TO 3rd OF E.S.O

These would be the materials needed to build the eggnaut:

A 5th year of primary (Group 1)	6th of primary to 6th of E.S.O (Group 2)	Materials
4	2	Classic white sheets of paper 21 x 29.7 cm
25	20	Plastic straws minimum 13 cm. length
25	20	Popsicle sticks, sticks or tongue depressors
150cm	100cm	String of any size
150cm	100cm	Adhesive tape of any size
5	5	Elastic bands of any size
1	1	A raw egg category A
1	1	Scissors

As you have seen they are easily available and easy to work with them materials. The rules that are set in this task are:

1.       The reentry system must fit in a volume of:

Group 1 – 30 cm. x 30 cm. x 30 cm.

Group 2 – 20 cm. x 20 cm. x 20 cm.

2.       Parachutes and helicopters are allowed

3.       You can use a plumb line to guide the re-entry system to the area of recovery.

4.       All parts of the system must be reentrant above height reentry:

Group 1 - 2-3 m

Group 2 - 3-5 m

5.       Mass reentry system should not exceed:

Group 1 - 400g

Group 2 - 300g

6.       Reentry system has to land as close to the center of the area reentry.

7.       Not mandatory to use all of the above materials.

The rules are pretty clear and the students of this age can understand perfectly.

Areas of study:

1.       How I can design my re-entry system (the capsule) to protect eggnaut?

2.       What can I put in my re-entry system to make sure it lands in the center of the target area?

3.       How can I do to slow it down?

4.       What Newton's laws of motion apply to the capsule and eggnaut?

5.       Draw a floor plan of your system and explain how it will work and why.

6.       Present a report of the test results and explain

Group 1 - Why it happened and how you corrected.

Group 2 - Why do you think that occurred and how it could improve the system design.

STUDENTS OF 4th OF E.S.O AND BACHELOR

His team is responsible for designing and building a landing area on a small scale, to be used in case of an emergency extraction of the new orbital eggnaut system. The landing area must prevent casque eggnaut is where acceleration due to gravity at a distance of one meter or more.

Materials:

1.       10 sheets of notebook paper or 10 sheets of 21 x 29.7 cm.

2.       30 cm. of tape

3.       An eggnaut (raw egg category A)

4.       Plummet for aiming (meter stick)

5.       Plasticine or similar recipe (a piece of 50-60 g to make an egg; chipping notches =)

6.       Balance of triple shaft

Specifications:

1.       You can only use these materials but not required to use them all.

2.       The egg landing area should be kept alone. No need to be tied to anything and nobody has to hold.