fish

Last week Lili and her band worked with Sean to explore how the size of fish fins impacts their speed. She writes, "We thought about how to analyze data in order to understand the relationship between the surface area of different fins and a fish's capacity for drive, lift, and stability."They experimented with their own ability to create the same type of drive, lift, and stability as in the fish by creating fish fin darts and launching them off the mezzanine to see how their choices affected their flight.They went to the California Academy of Sciences to look at the fish in the aquarium and took notes and made diagrams of the fish that displayed the best of all three characteristics.