This is a text about my groups balloon powered car. In our class we have a system in class called W.I.T (wildy important task), and we have subject to make,design and research about them. We have groups In W.I.T and the people in my group are Abbie & Emily. When we have researched,designed and tested we compete and see who’s car goes the furtherest. Using the scientific method to help us along the way.
My groups balloon powered car is made out of polystyrene,milk bottle lids and the balloon/straw. We used those materials because we saw a successful car and made a new design with it.
When we tested our design and it originally went about 13m.It was a successful car.
Then we changed something ( which i don’t know what) and the car started to turn. The car had a lot of speed but turned around in circles. Now we are discussing what has happened
When we had the competition our car went really fast but turned again and ended up going 6.13m until it turned. We were proud but we were a bit disappointed with our total because it usually goes 13m.
Our questions were:
What is the scientific method?
What is a fair test?
What do balloon powered car look like/designs?
What is friction?
what does forces mean?
what are the best forces for a balloon powered car?
What mass does the balloon powered car have to be to go the furthest distance?
What does hypothesis mean?
To validate the questions we look up a source and find an answer,Then we search another source And find their answer.Then also search another source to triple check your understanding.
If one answer was different you would search up another source to see what one is correct.
In our group we were answering What the scientific method was and we looked in images and saw an answer.Then we looked on youtube and found a video called the scientific method rap and watched it.It turned out that the video and steps were different to the image.At that point we had to search again.It turns out that the scientific method rap was just for looks it was completely wrong.
Thats the importance of validating!
