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- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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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 »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 7th
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Students work together to create paper helicopters. They discover how weight and drag forces affect how it flies. They discuss how engineers use this type of information when designing recreational vehicles. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 7th
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Students study the concepts of weight and drag while making paper helicopters. They measure how adding more weight to the helicopter changes the time for the helicopter to fall to the ground. They apply what they examine to the work of engineers as they collect data for re-designing helicopters. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students make helicopters using a pattern and a paperclip. They investigate how the helicopter flies and determine three "I wonder" statements. They determine how to find answers to the "I wonder" statements by role playing as investigators. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 6th
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Students research the history of helicopters and differentiate between the various models. while observing pictures of helicopters in action, they discuss their unique capabilities compared to other means of transportation. Finally, students create their own versions of helicopters using aluminum foil and other materials. Full Review »