Experiment with flight! Make bright helicopters and toss them into the air. Can you make them fall faster? Slower? Spin wildly? Gravity and friction have never been so much fun!
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What happens when you throw a ball or sweatshirt in the air? It always falls back to the Earth. Maybe you noticed that some things return a lot faster than others?
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Well, two forces are at work when you toss things up: gravity, the force that keeps drawing things back to the Earth and friction, the force that slows movement. Here’s a fascinating science experiment that you can try again and again.
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With Crayola® Scissors, cut a sheet of paper into four strips across the paper’s width. These strips are your Rainbow Rotors.
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Save one strip for test purposes. Fold the remaining three in half across their widths. Open the fold. From one end, cut a slit down the center lengthwise almost to the fold. Cut each piece this way.
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At the fold, cut one third of the way into each strip. Fold both sidepieces into the center panel to form a long tail in the center of this end of the strip. Bend about one-third of the end up toward the middle. Repeat with the other two Rainbow Rotors.
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Decorate all four strips, on both sides, with Crayola Rainbow Twistables. Think about the shapes and how your rotors will spin. Refold any folds.
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Work in teams to experiment with your Rainbow Rotors. Use a stopwatch, video camera, or other technology to record your investigations.
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Throw the uncut strip in the air. Watch how it falls to the ground. Does it spin? Fall end to end? How long does it take to reach the floor?
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Now toss the folded pieces, one at a time. What happens to them as they fall? Do they move in a different way than the first paper? How long do they take to reach the floor? Record the differences and similarities of each flight. How can you explain what
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