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Students discover the aerodynamics involved in flying a helicopter. They name the parts of the helicopter and determine the meaning of lift, thrust, drag and weight. They construct a paper device that can fly and its parts manipulated. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 7th
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Students observe a helicopter dart and a stomp rocket as they fly through the air. They compare how each is made, how they are propelled, and how well they fly. In groups they create and compare various flying "machines." Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students build and fly a taketonbo (a wooden helicopter). They discuss as a class the problems and difficulties they experienced during the flight. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students use a given website to research the steps needed to rescue someone with a helicopter that were developed by NASA and the United States Coast Guard. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students use an algebra equation to determine the rate of descent of a helicopter. Full Review »
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- 7th - 10th
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Students discover how helicopters work through an interactive program. They also examine why helicopters are more difficult to fly than airplanes. They discover the history of the helicopter and how it has been used in military operations. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students follow directions closely to make a helicopter out of paper and paper clips after talking about oak seeds that act as helicopters. They make cuts as the directions are given. They predict what happens when the paper copters are dropped and spent a few minutes experimenting to see happens. They make change in the helicopters noting how the they affect the copters flight in a journal entry. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students predict different ways in which paper airplanes fly the most proficiently. They work in small groups to make paper helicopters from paper patterns. They fly the copters to test their predictions. Finally, they discuss better ways to make the helicopters fly and write three sentence for homework that tell how they changed their copters. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 8th
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Students study the invention of the helicopter by Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky. They conduct an experiment to illustrate the effects of gravity on a flying object and demonstrate how changing certain variables can effect flight. They make a propeller and test how horizontal and vertical vibrations can be changed to circular vibrations. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students make a prediction (hypothesis) and test their hypothesis. They make a paper helicopter out of a pattern that provided by the teacher and manipulate a paper helicopter as well. They record their results on an activity worksheet that is provided by the teacher, Full Review »