Making Science Fun

What size parachute has the longest flight time? Easy to do experiment for grades 4th to 9th. Help students apply their knowledge of the scientific method to this experiment. Recommendation is to spend one day (50-55 mins) on making the parachutes and spend day two testing the parachutes. I put my kids in groups of 4 students and each student made a parachute of a different size. Students will identify the purpose/question, create a hypothesis, identify variables (independent, dependent and co

Teachers: Teacher will print power point on card stock, I recommend 4-6 slides per page to make them into cards. Each set should have a number or color mark on them. Example, one set of cards should all have a blue star on them and another set of cards should have a pink star written on each card. This will prevent card decks from being mixed up between groups. Students will receive a stack of cards. Teacher should ask students to count the numbers of cards in the set, it should be 16. Students