Tomorrow, our class will participate in day 1 of ‘Pumpkin Chunkin’! We have made hypotheses about what object will fall the fastest and which will have the most dramatic ‘splat’! We are going to be testing a large pumpkin, small pumpkin, yellow pumpkin/gourd, mini-watermelon, and coconut. We discussed the possiblility that the heaviest, largest, most circular, etc. fruit will fall fastest and have the most dramatic smash. What do you think? Stay tuned for the results of our experiment (or, if you can’t wait, check out the video above of a 1200 pound pumpkin being smashed from 100 feet in the air)!
Image description: the ‘before’ of our experiment, a large pumpkin, small pumpkin, yellow pumpkin, mini watermelon, and coconut. We will drop each fruit from a height and see the results!