For this assignment, we were tasked with experimenting with paper airplanes to determine how adding or removing different variables will change the paper airplanes’ distance travelled, distance glided, etc…
My partner and I decided it would be interesting to see how the length of the plane would affect the distance being travelled.
Would a smaller plane which weighs less travel further faster or will it just fall flat? Will the longer plane glide longer than the smaller ones?
There was a lot of questions we had; however, we predicted that the standard paper airplane would reach a greater distance than the smaller ones. Then the question came, how small will the other ones be? Each piece of paper was 8.5 inches wide and 11 inches long. We decided that our first plane would be just the normal average paper airplane you would see. For the second, we decided to cut 2 inches of the length to make it 9 inches long. Then for the 3rd, we cut off another 2 to make it 7 inches long. 
Left to right: Plane 1,2,3
To measure the distance traveled, we threw each plane from a fixed point 5 times to get an accurate measuring. Once we had collected the distance each plane traveled through 5 trails, we summed it up to an average of all 5 scores for each plane.
From this data, we learned that maybe just because the planes are smaller, doesn’t mean that they will fly very far. However, they did fly faster but that might have been because they were plummeting to the ground each time we threw them! The normal paper airplanes work just fine the way they are.
Overall, this assignment was honestly a super fun little experiment to start Science 10 honors and it really got me excited for what to come later on in the class. I am super excited to start this year of science honors and I am looking forward to all the cool activities and experiments like this one!