Flight - Up Up and Away!
8 - 9 Days - Resource Folder
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Additional Resources For Flight Unit
Teacher resources:
Aircraft parts and uses presentation (print/copy last two slides for student use)
Wright Brothers glider project (additional activity/low cost alternative project)
Student resource:
General summary of unit:
The unit begins with a lesson on how airplanes create lift, which involves a discussion of air pressure and how wings use Bernoulli's principle to change air pressure. Next, students explore the other three forces acting on airplanes—thrust, weight and drag. Students dream up and draw their own designs for futuristic and fanciful flying machines. They learn that doodling, sketching and brainstorming are related to the invention process, and about the early inventions that contributed to the history of flight and the state of modern aircraft. For brainstorming practice, they generate ideas for creative alternate uses for everyday objects.
Skills students need or will develop:
Skills needed to work through the design process
Creativity, communication, and continued work on Standards of Workmanship.
Goals For A Final Project:
Students will use their imaginations and apply their knowledge of aircraft design and the forces acting on them (gained from the previous lessons in the Airplanes unit) to design and create their own innovative flying machine models made from classroom construction and recycled materials.
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