After a week of learning focused on supporting the children in developing safe habits when using the roads, Friday afternoon was spent on a creative project to investigate how to keep an egg safe in a crash.
As part of the programme of learning, Sustrans provided all KS1 children with scooter training to ensure they know how to keep themselves and others safe when using their scooters on the pavements.
To wrap up the programme, the children were engaged in a creative project focusing on developing their awareness of the forces involved in a crash, either a car crash or falling off a scooter. To model these effects, we put an egg into a box and dropped it. The resulting mess caused hoots of laughter. The challenge presented to them was then to design a box that would keep their egg safe after it crashed to the floor from a height of 1m. (a big Thank you to McDonald’s for providing the boxes!)
The children were encouraged to think of the boxes as helmets with the egg as their head, or as cars with the egg as themselves inside.
Out of the 9 teams who took part, 5 eggs survived without a scratch, one got slightly cracked, two got smashed and one had an accident on the way to the test! All of the successful teams used padding AND secured their egg with a ‘seat belt’ or ‘chin strap’.
What a smashing way to finish road safety week!