Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Roto Copters

Today we made Roto Copters.  You can find the link to make your own here https://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/roto-copter.html

This blog post has been written by the class!

The first thing we did was color our roto copter template.  We used crayons.  Then we cut.  And then we put a paper clip.  Then we got to play with it. 


Malath is testing her roto copter by throwing it from up high.

Retal is cutting her roto copter, ready for it to be assembled.

Testing out the roto copters


We went outside to test our roto copters.  What did we find out?  We found that the wind helped blow the roto copters, which made them fly. 

We found out that the wind will help us fly the roto copters if we throw it into the wind.  If we threw it against the wind, it went back to us. 

We found that we pushed the roto copters, and the wind also pushed them.  

When we throw them they spin