By experimenting with the weight or shape of your helicopter, you can change how it flies. Cut out more helicopters to compare with your first helicopter. What happens when you:
- Add a paper clip to the stem? Two paper clips?
- Fold the stem to make it shorter?
- Cut the blades shorter?
- Cut jagged edges on the blades, or make the blades rounded?
- Bend the blades the other way?
- What other variations can you think of to test?
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Design a Submarine
Design a mini submarine that moves in the water like a real submarine.
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Pop Rockets
Blast off! Launch your own rocket with just a few simple items.
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Fly a Hot-Air Balloon
See what happens when air is heated as you build and fly a huge hot-air balloon.
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Transportation Gallery
Explore how humankind has flown, soared, sped and chugged throughout the years.
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Wright Flyer
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