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**Hawkesdale P12 College Students**
Why do you think the scientific method an important process?
 * **Task to be completed** || **Date, student comments, answers to questions and results of task.** ||
 * **Lesson 1:** Introduction and discussion about scientific method.

Decide what factor can be measured to determine which is the 'best' paper airplane.

Write a question that states what your group would like to investigate. || I think the scientific method is an important process because we want to find how to make the best paperplanes that we can and to do that we want work out why they go faster or higher witch involves science. if we just make then flew them but did nothing elce we wouldn't learn anything and we couldn't make the airplanes go faster or further.

I think the best paper plane is the one that can go furthest in the fastest amount of time. to measure this we will use a stopwatch witch will start from the time it leaves your hand to the time it hits the ground witch we can then work out how fast it goes. To measure the distance we will measure with a tape measure from where the person throwing it is standing to where the plane hits the ground. together we can add them together to fiind out witch plane went the furthest in the smallest amount of time.

The question that our group would like to investigate is that dose the with || (length of flight, height of flight, accuracy of flight). Write three to five notes about what you have learnt from your research.
 * **Lesson 2:** Research of different paper planes to determine which variable you will test (length of plane, width of plane, mass etc) that affects the factor you are measuring

Write your hypothesis in the cell at right. || Notes: (1) weight (2) volume (3) wing span (4) mass (5)

My hypothesis is a plane with cardboard paper will go further than a plane with realy thin paper. || Write out your experimental procedure, adding any steps you feel are necessary. || __**indepentent variables**__:what type of paper we used, like cardbord paper, plain A4 paper and thin graph paper. Choose three planes and complete five trials for each plane. Collect the data for each trial. Complete the Google form (Result Entry Form) with your results One member of the group should be responsible for filming a student explaining the hypothesis being tested, the actual flight trials or post-flight results. || Plane 1: Trial= 9.5m Trial 2= 9.8m || paper ||  9.5  ||  9.8  ||  9.7  ||  11.2  ||  13.2  ||  10.68  ||
 * **Lesson 3:** Independent, controlled and dependent variables.
 * __Controled variables__**: if you throw the plane high or low.
 * __dependent variables:__** who throws it and how hard they throw it. ||
 * **Lesson 4:** Trials
 * **Lesson 5:** Graph your results and post your video to the wiki. ||<  ||  Plane  ||  1  ||  2  ||  3  ||  4  ||  5  ||  Average  ||
 * #1:cardboard
 * #2: plain a4 paper ||  8.3  ||  7.7  ||  11.1  ||  10.8  ||  12.4  ||  10.06  ||
 * #3: extra thin graph paper ||  8.2  ||  7.9  ||  7.6  ||  6.5  ||  9.5  ||  7.94  ||   ||
 * **Lesson 6:** Compare your results with those of other students. ||  ||