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Best Flying Paper Airplane

We will be making paper airplanes to practice Experimental Design and the

following scientific reasoning skills:

 Problem solving

 Building Models

 Making inferences

 Predicting/hypothesizing

 Determining cause and effect

 Drawing conclusions

Challenge: How can we make a paper airplane

travel farther?

Remember from Unit 1, Chapter 1, Activities 1-5, in an experiment what you are

measuring is called the responding/dependent variable. In the case of the paper

airplane, the distance it flies is dependent on what you are changing or

manipulating – the manipulating/independent variable. You will not get the

same distance every time so you will need to run a series of trials. You should do

your best to use the same technique/procedure every time – these are called

constants/controls. Controls are the ways you keep the environment and

methods the same for each airplane trial so they won’t influence your results

Pre-Plan Phase: Choosing a basic design to experiment with

1. Watch the video and complete the review questions

Renaissance Science & Invention Review Questions



What was Ptolemy’s theory of the heavens?

A. Everything in the heavens revolves around the sun.

B. Everything in the heavens revolves around the Earth.

C. Everything in the heavens stays completely still.

D. The sun and moon are the only bodies moving in the heavens.



Who proposed the Laws of Planetary Motion still used by today’s astronomer?

A. Ptolemy

B. Galileo

C. Kepler

D. Copernicus



Who designed the dome of the Florence Cathedral?

A. Filippo Brunelleschi

B. Leonardo da Vinci

C. Galileo Galilei

D. Michelangelo Buonarotti



Who published the first modern textbook on human anatomy in 1543?

A. airplane

B. telescope

C. printing press

D. bicycle



What did Johann Gutenberg develop in the 1450s?

A. Everything in the heavens revolves around the sun.

B. Everything in the heavens revolves around the Earth.

C. Everything in the heavens stays completely still.

D. The sun and moon are the only bodies moving in the heavens.

Best Flying Paper Airplane - Experimental Design

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