Today, we used the scientific method to fly paper airplanes and measure the distance they traveled. Joelle and I chose to create 3 identical airplanes, but make them with different wingspans. We wanted to see how that would affect the distance, and we hypothesized that the shorter wingspan would go farther as it would reduce drag and increase aerodynamic factor. 

We flew them and the results were that the widest wingspan flew on average 4.53m, the medium length wingspan flew 5.78m on average, and the shortest wingspan flew on average 6.29m. The data we collected shows that as we hypothesized, the shorter the wingspan was, the farther it flew. One of our observations was that the airplanes with shorter wingspans also flew faster, and because of this, they may also fly further than the slower planes. Next time, I would ideally throw them softer and down so there is less chance for error in case I threw one harder because of an underlying bias due to which I wanted to go the farthest. I would also have a marker at each metre; we spent a lot of time measuring each meter so it would have been smarter to have markers so we didn’t have to reset each time.