Rubber Band Project

     This is Will, Bobby, Marion, and Jannell's eighth grade science project on how far a rubber bands travel when shot at different angles. We created a launcher that shoots rubberbands at five different angles; 15, 30, 45, 60, and 75 degrees. With the launcher we shot the rubber bands in our auditorium and measured how far they traveled with a tape measure and a yard stick.

     This project was used to help us successfully create and conduct an experiment, and to help us learn how to measure and record our results. The topic we focused on was generally the use of each step in the scientific method; designing, writing good procedures, data collection, data analysis, and data graphing. We focused on awnsering our expiriment question, "How does the angle (15, 30, 45, 60, and 75 degrees) affect the distance a rubber band will travel." We had to be patient, careful, and attentive to detail.

     Unfortunately we messed up with our testing. Our rubber band shooter was flawed because when we changed the angle the starting point was also changed. Also one thing we did wrong was that we didn't  notice that the rubber band bounced so each result differed and was not free of human error. We also had annother big error which made 15 degrees go farther rather than 45 degrees, but we are not sure what that other factor was that messed up our rubber band shooter.

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