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Design Your Own Experiment

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Investigations and experiments in flight are exciting to explore. A toy box or toy store is a great place to discover objects capable of lift. Keep the ideas simple and work with objects familiar to you. Visit an aerospace museum, or try to arrange a personal tour at a local airport.

Check the For More Information section and talk with your science teacher or community media specialist to start gathering information on flight questions that interest you.

Steps in the Scientific Method

To do an original experiment, you need to plan carefully and think things through. Otherwise, you might not be sure what question you are answering, what you are or should be measuring, or what your findings prove or disprove.

Here are the steps in designing an experiment:

• State the purpose of —and the underlying question...

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1. Introduction
2. The man who discovered lift
3. Making the "Wright" connection
4. Experiment 1 - Lift-Off: How can a glider be made to fly higher?
5. Experiment 2 - Helicopters, Propellers, and Centripetal Force: Will it fly high?
6. Design Your Own Experiment