Lesson Plan Title Objective

Learning impulse and momentum through an egg drop Students will gain more experience with the momentum equation, p=mv, and the impulse equation, j=Ft, through an egg drop activity. P3.4f Calculate the changes in velocity of a thrown or hit object during and after the time it is acted on by the force. P3.4g Explain how the time of impact can affect the net force (e.g., air bags in cars, catching a ball). Synthesized objective: Explain, using momentum and impulse, how impact time can affect force. 10 sheets of paper per group 1 meter of masking tape per group 1 egg per group Baggies for each egg during the drop Students should have experience with momentum prior to this lesson. Ideally, it would come after a lesson on conservation of momentum, because impulse can only occur when momentum is not conserved. What are some things that protect us from crashes? Students will likely say air bags and other car related things, but I will push them to realize car crashes are not the only type of crashes. There are helmets, padding, a cars crumple zone (made of metal), and other things that protect us.

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We generated a bunch of examples on things that protect us from crashes, but how do these things protect us from crashes? If you think back to momentum, this would be a time when our momentum is not conserved because we are losing momentum to an outside force (the thing we are crashing into). If we are losing momentum, that means we are changing momentum, meaning we have a thing called an impulse. Compare these two crashes: 1. An egg dropped onto a table 2. An egg dropped onto a cushioned surface

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What are some things that are different from these two crashes? I anticipate students will say things similar to soft and cushioned versus hard and unyielding. o Respond: So soft and hard, can you use scientific language to relate that to force? Some students may be able to point out the cushioned surface egg took longer to come to rest. Relate student ideas to the equation j=Ft. Students will get materials for egg drop contraption and will make a contraption in groups of four. Teacher will be going around asking: Tell me about the features of your contraption. Where did you get this idea? How do these features reduce the force the egg feels?

Coach
(15 minutes)

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Turn in today: 1. A sketch of your contraption. 2. Tell me the features of your contraption. 3. How are these features going to protect the egg? 4. Relate those features to the impulse and momentum equations. (On test) Relate this egg drop activity to an air bag. Using impulse and momentum, explain how an air bag works.

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Lesson Plan Title Objective

Learning impulse and momentum through an egg drop Students will gain more experience with the momentum equation, p=mv, and the impulse equation, j=Ft, through an egg drop activity. P3.4f Calculate the changes in velocity of a thrown or hit object during and after the time it is acted on by the force. P3.4g Explain how the time of impact can affect the net force (e.g., air bags in cars, catching a ball). Synthesized objective: Explain, using momentum and impulse, how impact time can affect force. 10 sheets of paper per group 1 meter of masking tape per group 1 egg per group Baggies for each egg during the drop This is the second day in the egg drop activity, meaning students should already have contraption ready. You have five minutes to add finishing touches to your contraption.

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Required Materials Previous Lesson Content Warm Up

(5 minutes)

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Timings Activities
- No model stage Allow students to drop eggs onto contraptions. Have first round at 1 meter, 2nd round at 2 meters, 3rd round at three meters, and so on until only a few eggs are left. Put winning contraptions at the front of the classroom and compare what about those contraptions protected the egg the best. Students answer individually: 1. Did your contraption perform like you wanted it to? Why or why not? Include impulse and momentum in your explanation. 2. Looking at the other contraptions, think of an improvement that you would like to implement on your contraption. 3. How would these improvements make your contraption perform better? Include impulse and momentum in your explanation. How did the students use impulse and momentum in their answer to problem number three?

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Assessment Improvements

Lesson Plan Title Objective

Learning impulse and momentum through an egg drop Students will gain more experience with the momentum equation, p=mv, and the impulse equation, j=Ft, through an egg drop activity. P3.4f Calculate the changes in velocity of a thrown or hit object during and after the time it is acted on by the force. P3.4g Explain how the time of impact can affect the net force (e.g., air bags in cars, catching a ball). Synthesized objective: Explain, using momentum and impulse, how impact time can affect force. Whiteboard to write student ideas.

Standards

Required Materials Previous Lesson Content Warm Up

(15 minutes)

This is the third day of the egg drop activity, so students should be building up their own ideas about impulse and change in momentum in this lesson. We learned about impulse in physics, but where else have we heard the word impulse? Compare and contrast impulse as we use it in Physics and how it is used to describe behavior.

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We are adding math to the best egg contraptions. 1. If the eggs were dropped from the highest height of three meters, how fast was the egg going when it hit the contraption? a. I always have to clarify that we are not looking for the velocity of when the egg comes to a complete stop after hitting the ground, but right before it hits the ground when it is still moving. b. This can only be solved with a connection back to kinematics. 2. The amount of force required to break a regular egg is about 25 Newtons. What is the maximum impact time of the collision? You drop a .2 kg egg onto the bare ground. When the egg reaches the ground, it is already traveling 5 m/s. If the egg comes to a complete stop after .009 seconds after hitting the ground, what force was required to stop it? Emphasize I am looking for a number, not the source of the force. Ms. Yu has a mass of 60 kg and falls on to a trampoline from the roof of her house. The roof is 3 meters above the trampoline. a. What velocity does Ms. Yu hit the trampoline? b. If Ms. Yu leaves the trampoline with the same velocity as when she hit the trampoline and she is in contact with the trampoline for .5 seconds, what force did the trampoline exert on her? How are students responding to the math?

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