The purpose of this activity is to demonstrate how drag affects falling objects. Students will make a variety of shapes out of paper and see how size and shape affects the speed with which their paper shapes fall. They will also be able to see how the weight of an object changes the speed with which it falls.

Concepts

drag, engineering, gravity, stem

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Additional Tags

form drag, streamline, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, geometric shape

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Classroom Considerations

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