1. What Areas of Learning Does This Assessment Address?

Planes Assignment

Date Distributed: Friday 15th September 2017Task Weighting: 20%

ASSESSMENT OUTLINE

1. WHAT AREAS OF LEARNING DOES THIS ASSESSMENT ADDRESS?

Technologies and great discoveries are made through many people over many years building upon ideas and concepts. The history of flight is one such area of scientific progress. To illustrate your knowledge and understanding of this process, you will need to research and present the history of flight to an audience. You will then need to use your scientific method skills to construct and test paper planes and write a report on your findings, whilst investigating forces and energy.

2. WHY IS THE COMPLETION OF THIS ASSESSMENT IMPORTANT?

This assessment allows you to develop and demonstrate your research and critical thinking skills, which are essential skills in becoming a successful Science student. It also allows you to extend your skills in scientific report writing and presenting ideas to an audience.

3. WHAT STEPS DO I TAKE TO COMPLETE THIS TASK?

Part 1 – The History of Flight

Choose one person/s that made a significant contribution to the history of flight. You are to pretend you are a scientific journalist from the same period of time, and you have been employed to advertise their invention to the public.

You need to include, in your advertisement:

a)The person/s name

b)The date of their contribution

c)A description of their invention

d)An outline of how the invention operates

e)An explanation of why the invention is important to the history of flight

You can choose how you wish to present this information. Remember, you are trying to educate the public and create enthusiasm, so be creative! You can make a poster, pamphlet, video, or even build a model of their invention.

Part 2– Constructing a Paper Plane

Your task is to construct a paper plane that can travel 6 meters, and then write a scientific report on your findings.

Making and Testing Your Plane

You are only allowed to use items from the following list to construct and design a paper plane that launches off a ruler, with the elastic band being the only power source.

List of allowed equipment per design (you do not have to use everything):

-1 x drinking straw

-1 x A4 piece of paper

-1 x 30cm ruler

-1 x 5cm piece of sticky tape

-1 x elastic band

-1 x paper clip

You are to make at least 3 designs. For each of these designs, you need to:

1. Record 5 distance results
2. Calculate an average flight time
3. Record observations of how it flies (e.g., stability, direction, speed, flight path, etc.)
4. Include 1 photograph for each design

Writing Your Scientific Report

You need to write a scientific report based on your paper plane model experiment. You need to include the following aspects:

a)Aim

b)Equipment list

c)Risk assessment

d)Method

e)Results

1. Record 5 distance results
2. Calculate an average flight time
3. Record observations of how it flies
4. Include 1 photograph for each design

f)Discussion. For this section, answer the following questions:

1. Describe the forces involved in your paper plane whilst it is being launched and then flying through the air
2. Describe the energy transformations that occur in order for your plane to fly
3. Your plane is a model of how a real plane operates. Assess the importance of using models in science, using your paper plane as an example.

g)Conclusion

Class Launch Off

On the due date of the assignment, you need to bring your best paper plane. You will launch your plane and receive a mark based on the distance your plane travels.

Details for Submission

You must submit your History of Flight Advertisement, Scientific Report and Best Paper Plane by Tuesday the 17th of October, 2017. Submit a hardcopy or electronically to your teacher.

4.HOW WILL MARKS BE AWARDED TO MEASURE MY LEARNING?

A marking criterion is attached over on the next couple of pages detailing how marks will be allocated. In order to achieve top marks, please be sure to refer to the marking criteria prior to starting, during and again before submitting your assessment task.

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