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- 8th
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Students discuss the flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk. They study artwork of various sculptors showing the concept of flight. They write a paragraph and design a papier-mache' sculpture that shows movement. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students think of their own experiences and dreams and write about how it would feel to be in this state of flight. They complete sketches of how they might appear in those dreams, then create sculpture based on the interpretation of their ideas. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Students study the basic principles of flight, including the Bernoulli Principle and Newton's Laws. They construct and study model aircraft Full Review »
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- 8th - Higher Ed
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Students research the mechanics of flight and create a slideshow with one slide dedicated to each of these topics: lift, drag, thrust, and weight. They create a short quiz regarding the material that they presented and give it to their classmates. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students investigate and demonstrate the basic principles of flight. They watch an excerpt from the video, "The French Hero," discuss good plane designs and the four basic principles of flight, construct paper airplanes, and participate in a class paper airplane competition. Full Review »
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- 4th - 5th
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Students discuss how the invention of flight changed the way people live today. In groups, they compare and contrast the differences between weight, lift, thrust and drag. Using these principles, they create a glider and propeller with everyday materials to examine the concepts in action. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students study man's first form of flight which truly imitated the free-flight of birds, the glider. They examine such important contributions to the invention of the glider such as: Sir George Cayley, Jean Marie LeBris, Otto Lilienthal and others. They focus on how gliders actually fly Full Review »
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- 8th - 12th
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Students will examine the physics of flight through using experimental inquiry. In this lesson, you'll introduce your students to the four forces of flight--drag, lift, thrust, and weight--through a variety of fun-filled flight experiments. Students will "fly" for short periods and then evaluate factors that might either increase or decrease their "flight" duration. Full Review »
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- 7th - 10th
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Students identify and examine adaptations in birds that enable them to fly. They conduct Internet research to relate these adaptations to the physics of flight. Students observe birds in flight and describe their behavior and flight mechanics. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students research the evolution of flight and how the Wright Brothers became the first human beings to succesfully design, construct, and fly an airplane. They observe NASA researchers using problem-solving techniques to design wings that will change their shape during flight. Full Review »
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