Paper Airplane Experiment Environmental/physical Science
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2Paper Airplane Experiment
Environmental/Physical Science
Leader/Thrower: _____________________________________________Period:_____ Date: __________
Measurer: __________________________________________________
Data Recorder: ______________________________________________
Essential Question: How do I identify the variables in an experiment?
Investigative Question: Does the mass of a paper airplane affect how far it flies?
What is your Hypothesis?
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I.
Materials:
Eye goggles
•
Paper Plane
•
Meter Stick
•
5 Paper Clips
II.
Procedures:
All students should always wear eye goggles to protect their eyes.
1. Choose your paper plane design.
2. Create a paper plane.
3. Each group will be given five trials to fly their paper plane. Measure the flight distance
using a meter stick. The flight distance will be measured in centimeters.
(Practice throwing/tossing the paper airplane with the same amount of force before
proceeding to performing the trials)
4. Perform the trials. The leader/thrower will toss the paper airplane, the measurer will
measure the distance for each trial and the data recorder will record all distances on
Data Table.
6. Using the same paper plane students will repeat step 4 but this time put paper clip/s ( 1-2-3-4-5)
on the end of the plane. This will be the one variable ( mass) being tested ( IV).
8. Compute for the average distance travelled by the” Original Plane” and “Paper Clip Plane”.
Data Table 1:
Paper Clip Plane
Original Plane
Distance Flown
Distance Flown ( cm. )
( cm. )
0 paper clip
1 paper clip
2 paper clips
3 paper clips
4 paper clips
5 paper clips
Trial 1:
Trial 1:
Trial 1:
Trial 1:
Trial 1:
Trial 1:
Trial 2:
Trial 2:
Trial 2:
Trial 2:
Trial 2:
Trial 2:
Trial 3:
Trial 3:
Trial 3:
Trial 3:
Trial 3:
Trial 3:
Trial 4:
Trial 4:
Trial 4:
Trial 4:
Trial 4:
Trial 4:
Trial 5:
Trial 5:
Trial 5:
Trial 5:
Trial 5:
Trial 5:
Average
Average
Average
Average
Average
Average
Distance
Distance
Distance
Distance
Distance
Distance
( cm. )
( cm. )
( cm. )
( cm. )
( cm. )
( cm. )
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