Lesson Plan

Paper Airplane Challenge

Students will conduct timed practice trials to fold and test paper airplanes, record their practice durations and flight distances, graph the data, and analyze how effort impacts performance.

This lesson helps students understand the link between effort and improvement by collecting and interpreting their own data. It builds perseverance, measurement skills, and confidence in using graphs to visualize results.

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5 minutes

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Introduction

5 minutes

Step 2

Practice Trials

10 minutes

Step 3

Record & Graph

7 minutes

Step 4

Analyze Results

5 minutes

Step 5

Connect to Mindset

3 minutes

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Effort Experiment

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