Hello Bloggers,
Last term we did an experiment on 3 paper planes. We first discussed about what makes the best paper plane and then Me and my group discussed the options if we were gonna do Distance, Gide, Tricks or People, we ended up choosing tricks. Since it was very hard to do many tricks with paper planes we just counted how many turns out planes did and the plane with most turns won., and we counted how many turns each plane did because it’s hard for paper planes to do many tricks. We had to do 3 trials on each plane, all planes have to have the exact angle. Me and my group discussed about if we were gonna do Distance, Gide, Tricks or People, we ended up choosing tricks. Since it was very hard to do tricks with paper planes we just counted how many turns out planes did and the plane with most turns won.
The final thing we did was make the paper plane and fly it. We ended up doing these things on different days.
This is how we did our experiment went firstly we had 3 people in the our group and we had to make 3 planes so we did one plane each, after that the teacher says only one person throws/trials the 3 planes and and the other group members count how many tricks or more specifically turns. We made the planes from videos and we made different planes.
Once it was the next science period we got our charts with pencils or pens and of course our planes we went to the mounts and got ready to throw our planes. We did 3 trials for each plane. Some of our planes flew very far and some didn’t but all our planes were good in turning. We also flew our planes just for fun when we were finished!
(This blog post took 2 days 1 day for all the writing another for the average)
Group Members: Zahra, Mahdiya And Taiba
Here are my results:
Taiba: Plane 1: Trial 1: 0 Trial 2: 2 Trial 3: 1
Mahdiya: Plane 2: Trial 1: 1 Trial 2: 1 Trial 3: 1
Zahra: Plane 3: Trial 1: 1 Trial 2: 0 Trial 3: 1
Total:
Taiba: Plane 1 total: 3
Mahdiya: Plane 2 total: 4
Zahra: Plane 3 total: 2
Average:
Taiba: Plane 1 average: Trial 1 + Trial 2 + Trial 3 = 1/3 Average
Mahdiya: Plane 2 average: Trial 1 + Trial 2 + Trial 3 = 1.3/3 Average
Zahra: Plane 3 average: Trial 1 + Trial 2 + Trial 3 = 0.7/3 Average
Which Plane Won? Mahdiya (Plane 2) won this paper plane experiment!
Reflection: This experiment was fun and took a lot of days to finally finish!
Bye Guys!
Here is our plane designs: