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Experimental Design Test - Paper Airplane Page 2

Background: You have been commissioned by NASA/Toys-R-Us to develop a better

paper airplane. This technology will likely be used to better develop high altitude

evacuation options for pilots and astronauts in the future.

Task: You are to design and conduct an experiment which explores different ways of

constructing paper airplanes, to find the best way to make a paper airplane flight last

the longest and fly the smoothest. You have 50 minutes to

conduct, write up and clean up your experiment station.

Materials:

• Paper Clips

• Scissors

• Calculators

• Triple Beam Balance

• Extra Paper

• Graph Paper

• Meter Stick

• Glue Sticks

• Tape

• 3 sheets white printer paper

• 3 sheets construction paper

• 3 sheets cardstock

• 3 sheets notebook paper

• Stopwatch (IF YOU BROUGHT ONE)

Directions: Write your experiment on the notebook paper provided with this test.

Please do not use this extra notebook paper in your experiment. Doing so will result in

a point deduction. Grading will be according to the rubric on the following page.

Special Instructions: Teams are encouraged to be safe and to avoid interference with

other teams as much as possible. Any team that is deemed as intentionally interfered

with another team shall receive a warning. A second warning against that team will

result in a penalty of up to 4 points. A third may result in that team being ranked below

all other teams.

Good Luck!

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