Parachute Investigation.
In your groups you have completed your initial investigation. As you have all discovered now, it failed...miserably! As a group you have also been given 30 minutes to redesign your experiment. Below you will find a list of what I expected completed.
You need to remember that the aim of this experiment is to make a parachute which takes the longest time to descend.
Your redesigned experiment must contain the following:
I am happy for people to work together as a group, but you MUST follow the following directions:
You need to remember that the aim of this experiment is to make a parachute which takes the longest time to descend.
Your redesigned experiment must contain the following:
- The Hypothesis and Prediction must be clearly stated. I would be expecting good answers to make use of the trial experiment to help inform their prediction.
- The control, independent and dependent variables must be clearly identified.
- The materials list must be specific and contain values.
- The method or steps should be numbered and once again specific. You should try to remember that you should be writing this experiment so clearly that someone else could follow.
- Your results table: a good results table should contain various trials and an average (ie if you are measuring the affect of string length, you should have three trials at length a, three at length b ect). Make sure your table is clearly labelled and all measurements contain units.
- A graph which clearly shows the results of your experiment.
- Conclusions. Remember coming to scientific conclusions is different to writing a conclusion. You need to explain your results, explain how you could improve the experiment, discuss your hypothesis and ensure what you are writing make sense!
I am happy for people to work together as a group, but you MUST follow the following directions:
- You may work together to complete all steps above up to and including the results table. After this stage the document must be airdropped, usb'd ect so each member of the group has their own experiment write up. Each group member is then required to individually complete their graph and conclusions.