Flight and measurement

This week as part of our science focus on Forces & Motion, Ti Kouka have been investigating what makes paper planes and helicopters fly. We have been using words like air resistance, gravity, propellors and thinking like scientists by predicting, testing, observing and recording.

We tested out different paper plane designs and then measured how far they travelled. We used our paces to measure and then had a go at using metre rules after finding out we need our measurements to be fair.

We investigated what would help our helicopters stay in the air longer. We tried different sizes and we noticed whether they spun clockwise or anti-clockwise.

Awesome work scientists!