✈️ Throwing paper: the whole packet

✈️ Throwing paper · kindergarten · 1 day of testing · free · 25 minutes a sitting

My days, if the fair is 14 days away

Count back from your fair day and write in each date. Fewer days than this? The jobs share days, in this order; nothing is skipped.

Dates from my teacher

• My question is due
• Testing starts
• My results table and graph are due
• My board is due

In this packet

1. 🗓️ My project plan
2. 💭 My hypothesis
3. 🧺 Change, measure, keep the same
4. 🪜 My steps
5. 📊 My results
6. 📓 My logbook
7. ✅ My conclusion
8. ✂️ Board titles to cut out
9. 🏅 The judge's questions and my certificate

If I change the shape of the paper, then how many heel-to-toe steps it goes will ________________, because _____________________________________________

What I think will happen, in my own words:

3 levels × 3 tries at each = 9 tries in all. If anything you keep the same changes, you won't know which change made the difference.

What I need

• 📄 Paper: 3 sheets the same size
• 🩹 Masking tape, to mark lines: a line on the floor
• 🖍️ Crayons or markers
• 🩹 Tape

Be safe: 🧍 Drop from standing: never climb · 🙅 Never at faces

1. Your grown-up folds one sheet into a plane. You scrunch one into a ball and keep one flat.
2. Put a tape line on the floor and stand behind it.
3. Throw the flat sheet gently, standing on the floor. Never at anyone's face.
4. Walk heel to toe to where it landed, counting your steps.
5. Your grown-up writes the number down. Throw it two more times.
6. Throw the ball three times, and the plane three times.
7. Colour a box for every step. Which shape went farthest?

Write each number in your results table the moment you measure it.

I changed: Paper shape   I measured: how many heel-to-toe steps it goes (steps)

MY GRAPH (a bar graph: paper shape along the bottom, steps up the side)

What I noticed: ______________________________________________

Write something every day you work on it, even the days you only gather things. More days? The three-page logbook prints from peabody.kids/science-fair/templates/logbook.

My hypothesis was ☐ right ☐ partly right ☐ not right.

I know because my numbers show:

What surprised me, or what might have gone wrong (7th and up):

Next time I would test:

Idea: Change a second thing: make planes with short wings and long wings, and throw each one three times.

1. What made you want to ask this question? Say something like: I wanted to know: which paper goes farthest: a flat sheet, a ball or a plane?
2. What did you think would happen, and why? Say something like: I thought changing the shape of the paper would change how many heel-to-toe steps it goes, and I wrote down why.
3. What did you change, and what did you measure? Say something like: I changed the shape of the paper (Flat sheet, Paper ball, Paper plane) and measured how many heel-to-toe steps it goes in steps.
4. What did you keep the same, and why does that matter? Say something like: I kept the same size of paper and throwing from the same line the same, so only the shape of the paper was different.
5. How many times did you test it? Say something like: 3 times at each of my 3 levels, and I found the middle number.
6. What did you find out? Show me in your numbers. Say something like: Look at my table: Flat sheet and Paper plane gave different numbers, and here's the pattern.
7. Was your hypothesis right? How do you know? Say something like: My numbers show whether I was right, partly right or not, and I can show you where.
8. Did anything go wrong, or surprise you? Say something like: One try was odd, so I did it again and wrote it in my logbook.
9. If you did it again, what would you change or test next? Say something like: I'd change a second thing: make planes with short wings and long wings, and throw each one three times.