One of our Easter activities was the “Egg Rolling Championships” with our Year 6/7 Buddy Class.
Our task was:
- Design a ramp that will roll your boiled egg as far as possible.
- You can only use the materials provided – newspaper, cardboard, paper, cardboard cylinders, plastic rods and low melt hot glue guns.
- Each group needed to provide a design of their ramp and had 45 minutes to finish their ramp.
We held the rolling event on the court outside the Year 6/7 building – we thought a basketball was a great surface to roll eggs on!
Here are the 2012 Egg Rolling Champs – Will and his buddy. Congratulations boys on a HUGE ramp!!! A great team effort!
Here are lots of photos of our creating and making session and then the rolling event.Egg Rolling Championships on PhotoPeach
What do you think of our ramp designs?
There were a lot of points to consider as we made our ramps – the higher the further the egg would roll!
What a wonderful activity! Our 4th grade classes will be starting their Simple Machine unit soon….we will share your ideas with them!
Hi guys. I loved the easter egg rolling competition because it was fun making our own ramp. Thank you Miss Sporn for coming up with the idea of the easter egg rolling competition . Love Sienna.
Wow they are some very creative and well constructed ramps. Looks like lots of fun, wish they had this activity when i was at school.
I am loving the egg roll ramps. keep up the good work (Cooper F)
I like making easter egg ramps because we did it with our buddy’s.
What eggcellent ramps you made. It is so good seeing how creative you all are.
I really enjoyed making my ramp. If I could do it again I would make the ramp a bit longer. I also liked eating the egg. Yummy!