On October 3, 2007, students from the Triple Scoop (Mr. Patterson, Mrs. Pfefferle and Mr. Chipka) gathered in the F.T. gymnasium for the annual Twirly Bird Competition. As a culminating activity to the Variables unit, students were required to construct a paper twirly bird that would twirl to the ground as slowly as possible. In order to keep the experiment controlled, students could only change one variable at a time during the testing/construction phase.
During the actual competition, the twirlies were dropped by their teacher from the ceiling of the gym. Precise timing and recording were performed by the other members of the team. Chloe Brown set a new “world record” with a time of 10.84 seconds. Chloe was the only student to break the 10 second barrier to date. Congratulations Chloe! |
