Humpty Dumpty STEM Experiment
Here in Junior and Senior Infants, we had great fun reciting the Humpty Dumpty rhyme.
This got us thinking about how we could help protect Humpty Dumpty from cracking in the future. We decorated our individual Humpty Dumpty’s by using whiteboard markers to draw faces on our hard boiled eggs.
We then placed each Humpty Dumpty into a ziplock bag filled with different materials to cushion Humpty’s fall to see which material would best protect him. Before beginning the experiment, we discussed the different materials we would use to try to protect Humpty Dumpty from his fall. We decided to test marbles, cotton balls, feathers, shredded paper, bubble wrap and flour.
On our prediction sheet, we coloured either the whole egg or the cracked egg to show our predictions for each material. After each egg drop, we again coloured the cracked egg or the whole egg to show our results. Have a look at our recording sheet.
We had great fun predicting the outcome and recording the results for this experiment. We learnt so much!
These are the steps we followed for our experiment with Humpty Dumpty:
Material to be tested:
Marbles
Cotton balls
Feathers
Shredded Paper
Bubble wrap
Flour
Method
- We used a permanent marker to draw a Humpty Dumpty face on each of the hard boiled eggs.
- We then filled each plastic ziplock bag with a different material – marbles, cotton balls, feathers, shredded paper, bubble wrap and flour.
- Next, we coloured in the prediction column on our sheets to show whether we thought Humpty Dumpty was going to survive the fall or not.
- We dropped each of the bags from 2 feet. We made sure to drop each bag from the same height so the test would be fair. We sang the Humpty Dumpty rhyme as we dropped the bags each time.
- We repeated the same procedure with all bags.
- When all the Humpty Dumpty’s had fallen off the wall, we took a close look at what had happened to them.
- We then coloured in either the whole egg or the cracked egg to show our results.
