Throw and Fly!

Lab Brief #21

🎯 Your mission

Master the concept. Use it tomorrow.

⚡ The twist

Every solution creates a new problem. That's good — that's the next project.

What you'll learn

You can make a paper airplane fly by throwing it. You give it a push!

Key words

Make a hypothesis first

Predict: which design will hold the most weight?

Say your guess out loud — then find out if you were right.

Step 1 of 4 · Read

Say the vocabulary words out loud. Can you repeat them?

Step 2 of 4 · Do

Push a toy car gently, then push it hard. Which push made it go farther?

Step 3 of 4 · Observe

Did anything change? Point to what is different.

Step 4 of 4 · Record

Point to the things you used in the activity.

Question 1 of 3

What happens if you push harder?

Question 2 of 3

Can you push a toy car?

Question 3 of 3

Can wind push a kite?

Mind = blown

🌉 The Eiffel Tower can grow 6 inches taller in summer because metal expands when hot.

Nice work!

You got 0 of 3 right.

🎯

We'll pick an experiment that matches exactly how you're thinking right now.

✨ More to explore

🌍 Where you see this in real life: Every bridge, building, and gadget you've ever used started with this.

🏆 Stretch challenge (try it this week): Find something that's broken at home and try to figure out *why* it broke.

👨‍👩‍👧 For the dinner table: “What's something around the house you'd redesign — and how?”

Send it to a parent who's looking for a 10-minute kitchen science win.

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