Ms Mangan’s fourth class enjoyed making parachutes seeing how they operated. Here are the results:
Some questions about the results:
- Which parachute was the quickest to touch the ground without any coins?
- Which parachute was the slowest to touch the ground without any coins?
- Which parachute was the quickest to touch the ground with coins?
- Which parachute was the slowest to touch the ground with coins?
- Can you identify things that would have influenced the time that that the parachutes took to touch the ground?
- Was this a fair test?
- If yes why?
- If not, how could we make this a fair test?