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Hi, I'm wanting to introduce the Paper Airplane Launcher activity but not sure what kind of paper we use. Do we use cardstock, construction, or regular printer paper for this activity?


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The activity can be viewed at: Build a Paper Airplane Launcher

Hi - pretty much any type of paper will work for this activity, or paper airplanes in general. You could even turn this into an interesting experiment and have students build the same paper airplane design from different types of paper and see which one flies best! You would need to do lots of trials due to the high variability in individual throws/launches.