Our week one experiment was making our own ring wing glider. Scientists and engineers, in order to create airplanes, they first start by making sketches of what they think the airplane should look like then they test them. In our class, we made our own paper airplanes and tried launching or throwing our paper planes in class. We tried to make them go as straight and far as possible. Most of our first trials did not work. They either went in a leftward direction or a rightward direction but eventually after a couple of trials, most people got there's to go straight.
Skill OneListening for directions. When we were making our airplanes, Dr. Linton was giving us specific instructions on how to make our airplanes so if we didn't listen to her instructions, we wouldn't have made our planes correct.
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Skill TwoLaunching your paper airplane. After we made our paper airplanes, it was time to launch them. In order to get a good launch, we had to have good arm form before we threw (launched) them.
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Skill ThreeFixing mistakes for perfect liftoff. When I tried launching my airplane for the first time, it was an epic fail. I remember it went to the left and second time it went to the right. I had to fix my mistakes but I feel the point is to make mistakes and fix them like what engineers do all the time. It didn't take Thomas Edison one time to create the lightbulb.
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