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Hello all! My name is Sarah! Like before, I am having a little trouble writing my lesson plan, but this time, my substandard is: 2.4.3 Identify a need and design a simple tool to meet that need. One of my activities is helping the students see that helmets are used for safety, and they have to create a "helmet" using different materials, like straws and cotton balls, for a hard-boiled egg so it does not break when they drop it. I need help finding an activity that with either scaffold into the helmet activity, or an activity that the helmet activity can scaffold in to! Thanks for all the help! Sarah

A raw egg works better. It is often hard to tell when a hardboiled egg is broken.

I think with an activity like this it is really important that students are given a lot of examples, especially for second grade. I also think using a raw egg would be a lot easier to identify as well when it breaks/cracks. Are straws and cotton balls the only materials they are allowed to use?