WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ) – Ben Franklin Elementary School held its annual egg drop today, showcasing student creativity.
The annual egg drop event, which started a few years ago, is now a tradition. A teacher said that students worked together to collaborate and make a contraption that will keep an egg safe after being dropped from the Wichita Falls fire department fire truck.
Students at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School cheered as the first eggs dropped from the fire truck. It was all for one goal: to save the eggs using critical thinking skills.
“This experiment is where they’re trying to build something that will keep their egg safe as it falls from a height. They don’t really get to practice it ahead of time, so they have to use their skills in math and science to kind of think about, well, what will keep an egg safe,” said Franklin teacher Meredith West.
West said this teaches the students various skills in math and science, and every student was able to come up with something different; students protected these eggs by putting them inside boxes and bubble wrap.
“It provides a lot of opportunity for creativity; it provides a lot of hands-on experience for a lot of our students. They really gravitate to that, and so it just gives them a different outlet for the things they are learning in class,“ West said.
She also said this kind of hands-on event makes it engaging for students.
“We allow parents to come and view what’s going on here. Aloha Day is just a really fun day anyway, and we’ve decided, why not make it even more fun by dropping eggs from a really tall fire truck, and so we have our leis, and we have all our Hawaiian gear on. It’s just really a fun way to send our students off to spring break,” West said.
One fifth-grade student said he learned a lot, and how to keep trying.
“Just the process of engineering, whenever some things don’t work your way, you’re just going to keep doing them and do it until it works. Find out ways to fix it,” the student said.
West emphasized that the annual egg drop has been going on for about three to four years now, and she is appreciative of all the staff that she works alongside in Ben Franklin.
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