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| | MAIS K-6 Science Inquiry, Investigation, and Design Technology - Parachutes QuickPlan |
 | | Science Activity Link: Children design, construct, and test parachutes, identifying factors that affect their fall. |
 | | Objective: Students will construct parachutes, practice landing them in a safety zone, identify and test variables that affect their fall, and describe the aerodynamics of parachutes. |
 | | Science Processes and Content: Processes-observing, predicting, communicating, measuring, inferring, hypothesizing, experimenting, recognizing and testing variables, gathering, recording, and analyzing data Content-gravity, air resistance, streamlining, mass, air currents, fire, design-redesign technology |
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