Super Science Wednesday....Ready for Take-off!

If you walked by our classroom this afternoon, you would have heard lots of sounds of excitement as the children created their very own paper planes for Super Science Wednesday.  We have been noticing that making planes is an interest of many of our students and we wanted to encourage this interest to lead into investigation and learning.

Each student got to select their own paper to create an airplane.  Some airplanes were made out of construction paper, bristol board, newspaper and even paper towels.  Of course, we had to decorate the airplanes a little with stickers and markers!

Here we are showing off our airplanes!
Can you tell we are excited?

 Then it was time for take-off!  Each student had a turn to make his/her airplane fly!  The students helped come up with the idea to mark where each airplane landed with tape so we could MEASURE to see which airplanes went the shortest and longest distances!  We love when we can use our math skills during out science activities!

Mrs. Allan got into the fun and created the BIGGEST airplane using bristol board.  Guess what we discovered?  Mrs. Allan's airplane flew the farthest distance!  We also concluded that since Mrs. Allan and some other friends folded their airplanes differently that affected how far the airplanes flew.

During big playtime following Super Science, the interest in airplanes continued for many of the students, so we continued flying our airplanes and comparing distances in the cubby room.  Here are two friends that decided on their own to grab a clipboard and record their findings.

The airplanes were all shapes and sizes, from very small to big!