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| Activity - We spent
a good portion of our time today discussing what it means to fly
.... Does a fly fly? or how about a baseball or flying
squirrel? After coming to a consenus about our definition of
flight, we explored the sample gliders from yesterday by
identifying the predicted strengths and weaknesses of each
design. After each group presented their insights to the
class, the gliders were tested ... and the Climbing
Crane out performed the others! |
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Launch of the Rings
(Green) Group |
Sonic Boom-er-angle
(Purple) Group |
Climbing Crane
(Yellow) Group |
Darting Leaf (Red)
Group |
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Each glider was
thrown... |
...and some performed much
better than others. |
Using a creative average, we
determined that the Climbing Crane glider soared the
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| Lab - Are the
drivers on Sheridan road speeding? We put our newly
learned knowledge about average speed to the test! In
the end, we not only learned more about motion, but
we identified common errors in experimental design and
discussed possible improvements that would reduce measurement
errors. |
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Waiting for our next
potential speeder. |
Ready to measure time for
known distance. |
Another group ready to
measure time. |
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Comparing time
measurements. |
Recording data
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... and solving for
average
speed. |
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| Building Project -
The students tried out their homemade maple seeds dropped from the
ten foot tall homemade PVC pipe tree. We discussed the
importance of the seed landing as far away from the tree -- and some
of our seeds did better than an actual maple seed. |
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Loading the
"seed". |
Raising the
"tree". |
Ready to drop the
seed. |
The seed
autorotates! |
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