Monday, February 23, 2009
Calculating Speed with Paper Airplanes
During February, learners had a fun way to practice math and science skills! Students were allowed to go to www.funpaperairplanes.com and find a design to create. We were able to measure the distance the planes went using the metric system and then record the time with a stopwatch in seconds. Dividing the distance by the time will give students the average speed. Our time only allowed us to have one practice throw and two trials, but students should understand that more trials certainly would have been valuable to validate average speed. This helps support the concepts on speed and motion taught in Chapter 3 of the textbook. Practicing the math skills in science class gives students a real world application of sports statistics. It's useful that they practiced the skills before the Montcas test in March.
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Great fun.
you should definetley do this again next year.
Dear Mrs.Leffler its Taylor Jenkins from last year. I really miss you!! You were like the best science teacher I ever had and im glad you taught me science.I normally never really liked science till you showed the class amazing fun and I cant wait to have other kids get you. What i loved about science was wen you taught physics because the rollercoaster project that was AMAZING and a good exsperience. Omg i remember when you went on the feild trip to the reef lol that was fun when you painted nails. i know im blabbering abput other stuff but i just wanted to thank you alot!! and i hope you have the best years at Riverside I know I did. Sincerly Taylor Jenkins.
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