Parachute Power Kit

Get ready to drop, design, and defy gravity with the Parachute Power Kit, an engaging, hands-on STEM science kit designed for young engineers.

In this kit, students will test how fast objects like feathers and coins fall, then level up by building their own parachutes and whirlybirds to slow them down. Students will use these hands-on science experiments to delve into the beginnings of force and motion, ending with the famous Egg Drop Challenge. Parachute Power kit comes with a full-color Student Workbook and Teacher Guide. This kit contains activities and information that focuses on the phenomenon of gravity.

As part of a special program from Home Science Tools, this Accelerate level kit will provide over 8 hours of knowledge, educating your student about force, motion, and gravity.

In this kit, the student will engage in these fun activities:

1. Observe gravity's effect on different objects
2. Investigate what make a structure strong during impact
3. Build and test different parachute designs
4. Make a whirlybird
5. Explore how wing size, material weight, and body shape affect flight
6. Participate in the Egg Drop Challenge

Use Parachute Power to answer questions such as:

• Why do objects fall at different rates?
• What is air resistance and how does it slow things down?
• How can I design a parachute that falls slowly and safely?
• What materials make the best cushion for landing?
• What makes a good engineer?

Our Parachute Power kit is a part of the Science Unlocked Accelerate series and is recommended for grades 3-7.

• 10 Balloon
• 3 Biodegradable Packing Peanuts, pack
• 1 Card stock
• 10 Chenille Stem
• 5 Coffee Filter
• 1 Coin
• 2 Cork
• 3 Cotton Balls, pack
• 2 Drawing Paper
• 5 Egg
• 1 Feather
• 1 Fishing line
• 1 Modeling Dough
• 1 Paper Clips, small size, box
• 1 Pebbles
• 5 Plastic bag
• 1 Rubber bands, pack
• 1 Ruler
• 1 Scale
• 1 Scissors
• 10 Straw, flexible
• 10 Straw, large
• 10 Straw, small
• 1 Stretchy fabric
• 1 String
• 1 Tape, invisible
• 1 Tape, masking
• 1 Thermal blanket
• 5 Tissue paper
• 1 Tongue Depressor, pack
• 1 Whirlybird Template

• NGSS science standards alignment

  • 3-5-ETS1-1: Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

  • 3-5-ETS1-2: Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

  • 3-5-ETS1-3: Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.