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Plan a fair paper-airplane experiment
Create a harmless classroom-style experiment with one changed variable, controlled conditions and an honest result limit.
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What you’re working towards
Create a harmless classroom-style experiment with one changed variable, controlled conditions and an honest result limit. The worked result is a written example for practice; the AI steps have not been tested.
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Make a start
One step at a time.
3 steps
Start with the synthetic worked example or other non-sensitive inputs. Run one prompt at a time in your chosen AI tool. Replace any bracketed placeholders with the requested material, check each reply, and supply the source or earlier outputs that step needs. Paste them again if the tool lacks that context.
Start with the synthetic example, then adapt each prompt to your task.
01
Open a chat and paste the example
Open https://chatgpt.com and choose New chat. Copy every line under Input in this guide into the message box. Then add the prompt below (the instructions telling the assistant what to do) and send both together. Expect a written response shaped like the example under Output. The wording may differ. If the assistant asks for information already in the input, point to that line; if a necessary fact is missing, keep it unknown rather than guessing.
Your starting prompt
Turn the full supplied experiment brief into a practical six-trial plan and blank record sheet. Identify the one intentionally changed feature, what to keep consistent, the exact measurement rule and an interleaved trial order. Explain how to summarize results later and what this small test cannot prove. Invent no measurements or winner.
02
Check the specific result
Count three A trials and three B trials. All distance fields should be blank and labelled cm. Check that the landing point means first floor contact and that release variability remains an acknowledged limit. Compare it with the Input yourself. If the response fails a check, paste the correction prompt below into the same chat. Recheck the corrected version before saving it.
Your starting prompt
Audit the plan against the supplied conditions. Restore any missing control or stop rule, verify three trials per plane, and remove invented distances or conclusions. Keep the first-contact measurement and release uncertainty explicit.
03
Try it with your own example
Open a new chat. Copy the prompt below, then replace [PASTE YOUR INPUT HERE] with your own non-sensitive facts and rules. Include the kinds of details listed under Requirements. Send the whole message. Expect the same kind of result as this guide, using your values. Compare every name, number and rule with your input. If something differs, point to the exact mismatch and ask for a corrected complete answer. Save only a version you have checked.
Your starting prompt
Turn my low-risk paper experiment brief below into the requested trial plan and a blank record sheet. Identify the one changed feature, controls, exact measurement rule and an interleaved trial order. Explain how to summarize later observations and the test’s limits. Do not invent measurements or a winner.
Use only the new input below. If a fact needed to finish is missing, ask me for it before choosing an answer.
MY INPUT
[PASTE YOUR INPUT HERE]
Optional: improve the result
Plan a stronger repeat without overclaiming
Consider how to reduce dependence on one pair of objects while keeping the task small and observable. This extension uses the worked example. Return to that example chat, or paste its input and your checked example answer into a new chat first. Do not apply its sample values unchanged to your own input.
Advanced prompt
Propose a repeat using two newly made pairs of the same base design, one flat-tip and one folded-tip plane per pair. Explain how to label the planes and keep pair results separate. Do not claim this removes all construction or release differences.
Show, then try
See the shape of the result.
This input is synthetic. The output is a written illustration of the intended result, not a verified AI-tool run.
01 / The starting point
Synthetic input
Made-up example for practice.
Made-up experiment-planning exercise. Question: does adding upward-folded wingtips change flight distance for these two paper planes under the test conditions? Two already-made planes, A and B, were made by the owner from the same paper size and base design; A has flat wingtips and B has upward-folded wingtips. Use the same thrower, starting line, indoor clear space and measuring tape. No people or fragile objects are in the flight area; stop if the area becomes occupied. Measure distance in centimetres from the starting line to first floor contact. Give each plane three trials. Keep the release style as similar as practical, but acknowledge it cannot be guaranteed identical. No results have been collected.
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Written example for practice; not a recorded AI response.
Test plan
Changed feature: flat versus upward-folded wingtips.
Keep as consistent as practical: thrower, starting line, space, base design, paper size, release style and measurement rule.
Use this balanced trial order: A1, B1, B2, A2, A3, B3. This avoids doing all of one plane’s trials first.
Record sheet
A1 ____ cm; B1 ____ cm; B2 ____ cm; A2 ____ cm; A3 ____ cm; B3 ____ cm.
For each trial, measure to first floor contact, not where the plane finally slides to. Note any changed release or interruption beside that trial. Stop if the flight area becomes occupied.
After collecting data: calculate each plane’s mean as its three distances added together, divided by 3. Keep all original readings visible.
Limits: two individual planes and variable hand releases cannot establish a general rule about all planes. No winner or measured result exists yet.
These checks use the worked example and its particular facts. With your own material, check your actual names, numbers, sources and rules; do not reuse the sample’s values as the answer.
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A few things to watch for.
Two separately made planes may differ in small ways beyond the intended feature. Acknowledge that limitation.
Do not discard an inconvenient trial without a declared reason; retain the reading and note what happened.