Kia ora koutou katoa, This week we made egg parachutes. It was really fun, and it was also really hard because we had to use so many materials.
In this experiment, we were timing how long it took the egg parachutes of different sizes to hit the ground. This was investigating the physics concepts of air resistance and mass. The science ideas we were investigating were air resistance and gravitational weight.
Here is the link to my planning sheet
My method for my parachute is
- The first thing I did was plan what I was going to make, and from there we went straight to work
- The next thing we did was get all of the materials together and build what I had planned
- The last thing we did was drop off from the top of the playground, and to my surprise, it went faster than I thought.
My egg didn’t break because of the result. I shoved the egg in the cup. It took like 10 seconds for my egg to fall.
Some parachutes fall faster than others because the gravity of the egg was also an unbalanced force, because the way the egg was placed in the parachute drop.
I would improve my design next time by putting four strings at the edge of each cup and tying the strings to the four corners at the end of the plastic bag.
My experiment went really well, and it was really good and creative!
Nga mihi nui!