with a hard-cooked egg. For years, he had collected odds and
ends—string and plastic, paper towel rolls end egg cartons,
Styrofoam peanuts, cotton and other packing material. In the
world outside of school, limited availability of materials was a
real constraint. He was grateful that he taught in Florida where
he could open the door and watch the students outside as they
climbed to the second floor balcony to conduct their trial runs.
He knew that if he taught up North, where they would have to do
this activity from the gym balcony, he would have to plan
differently as the class would have to move to and from the gym.
On Tuesday, he would have a few raw eggs for each class. He
would have several students try to crush them by exerting force
with their hands. He would need lab aprons, goggles, and plastic
gloves for that. Then he would show the egg drop video. After
the first few years, he learned to videotape the class on the
day of the egg drop. He had edited a short video of some of the
more spectacular egg