Designing a Weather Vane

Last week, we did a science design project. We had to make weather vanes. We could only use these materials: a wooden dowel, manila tag paper, I meter of tape, orange plasticine, 4 straight pins, ruler, 4 straws, scissors, markers and a pencil. It was a little tricky because those were the only materials we could use. The reason we needed to make a weather vane was because the local skydiving company needed a weather vane to determine the wind direction. This is some of the criteria for our weather vane: the weather vane needed to have the 4 cardinal wind directions (N,E,S,W), it had to withstand 2 different wind speeds, must be reliable during numerous tests and design should promote the local skydiving company.  We had to fill out a logbook and sketch out a design of our project. We worked in our table groups. Most table groups finished in two days. We also had to make names for our skydiving company. Emmy’s was UFO Skydiving and mine was Jumpin George’s Skydiving Palace. So then Ms.Wasney tested them with a hair dryer on high and on low. It was a very fun project!!!!

By: Emmy and Haley J