In developing our understanding of forces in the world, we have looked at air resistance. We now understand that forces work in pairs, and a force is always opposed by another. Do you know what force is opposite to air resistance?

To investigate air resistance, we designed parachutes for Lego men. To test how air resistance affects speed a parachuter (or Lego parachuter) falls, we made different size parachutes.

Were our predictions correct, that the biggest parachute would travel to the ground slower because the air resistance would be stronger on a bigger surface area?