Imagining themselves arriving at the Olympic gold medal soccer game in Beijing, students begin to think about how engineering is involved in sports. After a discussion of kinetic and potential energy, an associated hands-on activity gives students an opportunity to explore energy absorbing materials as they try to protect an egg from being crushed.

Concepts

biomedical engineering, engineering, kinetic energy, potential energy, stem

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Additional Tags

sports engineering, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, egg drop, science of sports

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)