Heat Shield

In Science we learned about heat and heat transfer. We were assigned a project and it looked exciting. I could wait! We had to make a heat shield.This heat shield would have to protect a raw egg or “eggstronaut” as my science teacher would say. We have to protect the egg from the heat of a blow torch! But there are rules we have a certain amount of credits we can spend on materials for example tin-foil is 15 credits per eight inches. We only had one hundred credits. The heat shield also could weigh more than forty five grams and had to be within one cm thick.

We got to test materials to see how well they worked but we only got to test with a heat gun which was nowhere near as hot. The final design ended up being made of three sponges, duct tape, and aluminum foil. This cost sixty credits. The eggstronaut did not last. We had about five millimeters of cooking. At the end of the project, we had to make a slideshow of the data we collected to show what we learned and what worked and didn’t.

 

2 thoughts on “Heat Shield

  1. I’m so glad you enjoyed the heat shield project! I’m also glad that you recognized how much you learned even though the egg did not survive – in science there are many more failures than successes, and it is the failures where we do most of our learning! 🙂

    I can’t wait to see what you do on your next big challenge!

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