Flying helicopters

Friday, October 14th, 2011

We have been talking about helicopter seeds, and how they fly in the wind.

Today we made our own helicopters and we flew them in the class.

We tried changing direction of the helicopter spins (we did this by reversing the direction of the blades).
We raced the helicopters, some with paper clips and some without to see which would spin more and which would land first, and we raced big and small helicopters.  We also looked at the shapes in the helicopters - we found and counted the rectangles in the helicopters.  We really enjoyed this flying lesson!