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Science Y2 – Parent Guide

Experiment 3: Dropping a peg attached to a large parachute and peg attached to a
small parachute. (E.g. 50cm x 50cm of thin white plastic bin liner and
30cm x 30cm of the same material.)

• Conduct the experiment.
• Discuss the results.
[The larger parachute caught more air and therefore took longer to reach the
ground.]
• Help the children to see how God has enabled people to invent parachutes. The
inventors must have studied how things move down through the air, and realised
they could make something useful which could save lives. Remind the children that

God may show them something some day and that they may serve others by
inventing something useful.
• How do you think you would feel if you were a parachutist and you were about to
step out of a plane?
[Hear the children’s responses. I think God puts us in situations where He wants us
to trust Him. It’s like we step out in faith and He is our parachute, holding us and
causing us to go through the situation safely as we trust Him.]

3. Ask the children to draw the results of these experiments in turn, and complete the
explanation underneath/ write one or two explanatory sentences underneath. There is scope for
the children to decorate the front cover of these booklets with suitable drawings.

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