In Te Ngahere we have been learning about paper planes and how they work. We had to make paper planes from a youtube clip that an intermediate school made. Then we went to the court to fly them.
I learnt that when you add flaps to a paper plane it creates drag. After we flew them we came back inside and made some adjustments to our plane. To do that we cut flaps in the back of the plane wings to create drag. We found out how to add drag to the paper plane. Usually when you create drag on your plane it goes slower but ours went further. When we created the plane I read the instructions again and you are not suppose to do it on a windy day, and it was a very windy day.
Have you ever made a paper plane? Have you ever created drag on your plane? This link is where we got our information from Click Here.
Adding a picture of a paper plane
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