Transcript Paper Airplane Lab Experiment

Paper Airplane Lab Experiment
Questions:
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Have you flown a paper airplane before?
(Hopefully not in this class)
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Do you always use the same type of paper?
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Do you always use the same design?
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Do you want it to fly straight or do tricks?
Introduction:
We are going to design an experiment
to test the flight capability of paper
airplanes.
 You have to choose what you wish to
test: distance, the ability to do trips.
 We need to think about how we are
going to design and perform the
experiment.
 What things do we need to think
about?
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Problem:

What question are we trying to
answer?
 We
want to design an experiment
to test how the design of an
airplane affects its ability to fly.
 How
does the design of an
airplane affect its ability to fly?
Hypothesis:

What do you think is going to
happen?
 How do you think the design will
affect its ability to fly?
 Will the length of the wingspan
matter?
 Will the size of the rudder matter?
 Will the size of the elevators
matter?
 Do the size of the ailerons matter?
Hypothesis:

What do you think is going to
happen?
If the wingspan of the airplane is
_________ , then ___________
_________________________.
Materials:

What do we need to perform this
experiment?
 Make
a list of materials:
 Everything and anything we
need to carry out the
experiment.
Procedure:

How are we going to perform the
experiment?
 What do we need to do?
 What needs to be kept constant?
 What is our control?
 What is our independent variable
going to be?
Procedure:
 Where
are we going to perform the
experiment?
 What are we going to observe?
How?
 This should be written as a list of
numbered steps.
Data:
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Data Table with
measurements
from the
experiment.
Include
headings and
labels.
Type of
airplane
1
2
3
4
5
6
Average
distance
Flight
Distance (m)
Lab Report Write Up
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Must include:
 Hypothesis: One sentence
about what you think will
happen
 Abstract: one paragraph about
why we did this experiment
 Procedure: Step by step
explanation of what you did to
perform the experiment.
Lab Report Write Up
 Data:
Tables and Graphs
 Conclusion: Explain your
results, Reject or accept
hypothesis
 Questions: Answer the
questions about the lab in
complete sentences.
Hypothesis
 Statement
saying what you
expect to happen
Abstract
 Purpose
 Final
results
 Background information
 Must be in complete sentences
Data
 Tables
 Graphs
 Calculations
Procedure
 Materials
 Step-by-step
bulleted list)
directions (can be
Conclusion
 Explain
results in detail
 Is hypothesis proven or disproven?
Give reason if disproven
 Sources of error
Conclusion
 What
did you learn during the
experiment?
 Is there anything that you should
have or would have done
differently?
 Must be in complete sentences
 Answers to questions
Questions:
What is distance? How was distance
involved in this experiment?
2. What is displacement? Which is more
important in this experiment,
distance or displacement?
3. What are you manipulating in this
experiment? What is your
independent variable?
The answers to the questions must be in
complete sentences!
1.
Questions:
4.
5.
What are you measuring? What was
the dependent variable in this
experiment?
Should your results be the same as
others? Why or why not?
The answers to the questions must be in
complete sentences!
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Hypothesis:
If the wingspan is larger then it will
give the plane more lift so that it flies
farther.
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Abstract:
Planes depend on both thrust and lift
to glide. Thrust is the forward
movement of the aircraft. Lift is the
difference in pressure above and
below the wings that enables the
plane to glide. Planes that fly longer
typically have large wingspans and
are flown with little thrust.
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Abstract:
The goal of this experiment is to
determine the airplane design that
travels the farthest. The Interceptor
was found to travel the farthest with
an average distance of 6.23 meters.
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Procedures:
Materials
• Origami paper
• Instructions
• Meter stick
• Masking tape
• Pencil
• notebook
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Procedures:
1. Get origami paper and folding
instructions from table.
2. Fold paper airplane according to
instructions.
3. Refold wings to stabilize flight.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for the other
designs.
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Procedures:
5. Gather notebook, meter-stick,
pencil, and airplanes to take to
runway.
6. Put down everything except your
airplane.
7. Stand on the runway start line.
Stand in the same place each time.
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Procedures:
8. With the airplane in hand, pull your
arm back and throw the airplane
down the runway. Make sure you
throw it the same way each time.
9. Measure the distance the airplane
flew to the nose of the airplane
using the meter stick.
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Procedures:
10.Record your data in your notebook
and pick up your airplane. Also
record any problem you may have
encountered. (Hitting people,
bending the nose)
11.Measure the distance the airplane
flew to the nose of the airplane
using the meter stick.
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Procedures:
12.Repeat steps 7 – 11 for 6 trials.
13.Repeat steps 7 – 12 for the other
2 airplanes.
14.Pick up all of your materials and
return to classroom.
15.Return the meter sticks recycle
your airplanes
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Data:
Flying Wing
Trial
Flight
Distance
(m)
1
Interceptor
Elephant
Trial
Flight
Distance
(m)
Trial
Flight
Distance
(m)
3.14
1
4.53
1
5.32
2
2.23
2
6.23
2
4.75
3
3.45
3
7.14
3
5.84
4
2.69
4
7.52
4
6.37
5
3.82
5
6.59
5
5.73
6
4.73
6
5.34
6
6.49
Average
Distance
3.34
Average
Distance
6.23
Average
Distance
5.75
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Data:
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Conclusion:
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My data shows that the
Interceptor flew farther than the
Flying Wing and the Elephant
with an average distance of
6.23m. This disproves my
hypothesis because its wingspan
was smaller than the
Interceptor’s.
Conclusion:
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I think that the distances for the
Interceptor should have been
closer together, but because I
hit Suzie and bent the nose of
the plane the distances varied.
Also the Flying Wing did not fly
as well as the other planes
possibly because I did not give it
any elevators.
Conclusion:
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If I did the experiment again I
would try giving the Flying Wing
some elevators to give it more
lift. I would also make sure no
one was on the runway when I
threw the plane.
Conclusion:
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I learned a better method to
measure large distances. I also
learned about flight and the
types of wings on planes and
how they are used to make
planes fly better.
Questions:
1.What is distance? _______________
How was distance involved in this
experiment?
______________________________
2.What is displacement?
_______________ Which is more
important in this experiment, distance
or displacement? _____________
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Questions:
3. What are you manipulating in this
experiment? What is your
independent variable?
______________________________
4. What are you measuring? What was
the dependent variable in this
experiment?
______________________________
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Questions:
5. Should your results be the same as
others? Why or why not?
______________________________
______________________________
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