Blog Post #5: Egg Drop Experience

I really enjoyed the egg drop experiment because it was a hands on activity. I learn better when I am doing hands on experiments so this activity really caught my attention. Before we received our box I was curious to see what materials we had to work with but once I saw our box I automatically knew we had a good chance of our eggs surviving the drop. My group and I got really invested with the experiment and we wanted to make sure our babies (eggs) did not die. All our eggs survived the drop and I had a lot fun with the activity and my group which I thought made the activity even better.

How I think the egg drop experiment connects back to the Ullucci reading about poverty is that each box represents different towns that have different resources. For example, my group was a ‘richer community’ because we had the most eggs out of all the groups and had the best resources like marshmallows and bubble wrap.  This represents how some communities have better school systems which provide more resources for the students living within those communities verses a community that has a lower economic status who’s schools do not have many resources (the box with paper, feathers and a condom).

What I also thought was interesting and did not realize until our discussion about the experiment was that the groups that had the better materials were in the same room and the groups that had the not so good materials were together in the same room. This made we think how sometimes higher economic status communities are usually located together, like Barrington and Bristol, while lower economic communities, like Providence and Pawtucket,  are close together as well. Because of how lower economic communities are set up it can make it harder for community to grow and be better because their neighbors are also struggling unlike the higher economic community where they may want to compete with their surrounding communities to be the best of the best. Overall, I really enjoyed this experiment and it gave me a new view on poverty.