Make a paper airplane and experiment with adding winglets to it to test its performance. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and introduction, followed by a section on terms, concepts, and questions, bibliography, list of materials and equipment, experimental procedure, suggestions on how to vary the experiment, plus a focus on the sort of careers this experiment might relate to.

Concepts

aerodynamics, airplanes, center of gravity, drag, lift, vortex

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Additional Tags

horizontal stabilizer, science fair project, wing shape, winglets, science buddies, science project

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)