For this unit, Year 8 have been working hard at trying to understand the applications of Newton’s Laws of Motion. In addition, we have been looking at the physics behind skydiving and how terminal velocity plays a key role in parachute designs. The learners were then given the task of creating 3 parachutes each made of different materials which had to reach the floor in the slowest time possible. With this task they were consolidating the key scientific skills of recording and representing data and using their scientific knowledge to explain the results of the experiment.