Constructing Parachutes

Project #1399 on iSENSEProject.org

In this project, you moved through the phases of the Engineering Design Process as you planned, constructed and redesigned parachutes.  The goal of your assignment was to construct a parachute was to carry your toy soldier from a drop of 2 meters to a target in the slowest possible time.  

Today you will look at the data collected through your test phase and draw some conclusions about the relationship between drop time and velocity.  The data will also help you see which group created a parachute with the slowest rate of descent.

1.  Look at the default visualization.  The drop heights for all trials was the same (2 meters). What do you notice about the relationship between the drop times and the average velocities of each science group?

2.  Which science group's parachute had the slowest rate of descent?  Which group's parachute has the fastest rate of descent?  How do you know?

3. Look at each group's Distance Landed from Target.  What can you surmise from this?

Note:  Students are currently building their parachutes to test next week, so the data entered is not students' actual data.  That will be entered during the week of 10/5/15.