Question 40
Test your parachutes
- Stand on a chair and raise your arm to drop your small parachute. Remember that you want to drop it as slowly as possible, so don’t throw it!
Be careful when standing on the chairs – you don’t want to fall off!
- Use the stopwatch to record how many seconds it takes for the parachute to reach the ground.
- Repeat three times to check your results.
- Decide whether you need to repeat more times to get more reliable data.
- Record your results in a table.
- Predict whether the larger parachute will fall faster or slower than the small parachute.
- Repeat these steps with the large parachute to test your prediction.
Safety adaptation: Do not stand on a chair. Ask an adult to release the parachutes from a safe height while you stay on the floor.
- Stand on a chair and raise your arm to drop your small parachute. Remember that you want to drop it as slowly as possible, so don’t throw it!
Be careful when standing on the chairs – you don’t want to fall off!
- Use the stopwatch to record how many seconds it takes for the parachute to reach the ground.
- Repeat three times to check your results.
- Decide whether you need to repeat more times to get more reliable data.
- Record your results in a table.
- Predict whether the larger parachute will fall faster or slower than the small parachute.
- Repeat these steps with the large parachute to test your prediction.
Safety adaptation: Do not stand on a chair. Ask an adult to release the parachutes from a safe height while you stay on the floor.
