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Gliders

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students design and build a small glider. They see how the flight of a bird is similar to the flight of a sailplane. They explain how birds get their thrust and how they control their direction of flight.
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Pulleys and Gears

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students analyze an engineering problem. They contrast paper and pencil mastery of concepts with hands-on mastery. They present their design and rationale behind it, whether it works or not.
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What is Work?

For Students 7th - 11th
In this work learning exercise, students will match vocabulary words with definitions: joule, Newton, force, and work. Then students will answer 8 problems based on the equation: work = force x distance.
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How do engineless planes stay aloft?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore how a plane can stay aloft. In this engineless airplane flying instructional activity, 5th graders experiment to find how the design of a plane and Bernoulli's principle keep planes in the air. Student's create a...
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No Bones About It

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young scholars conduct Internet research on the different parts of the skeletal system. Then they create a model arm that demonstrates how muscle and bone work together to create movement.
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Maths at the Mill; A Mathematical Trail Around Sarehole Mill

For Students 4th - 5th
For this math worksheet, students solve math problems based on a trip around the Sarehole Mill. The worksheet includes black and white photographs of the site as well as questions that relate to the mill. Students answer questions about...
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Understanding Simple Machines

For Students 5th - 7th
In this simple machines worksheet, students read about various types of simple machines. They then use what they learned to answer 17 questions. The answers are on the last page.
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Integrating Biology-Muscles and Work

For Students 7th - 10th
In this muscle and work learning exercise, students read about aerobic, anaerobic and resistance exercise. They apply what they read and answer three questions about these three types of exercise.
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Glide Away

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students design and construct a gliding aircraft. They use the Internet as a research tool to gain background information about specific flight principles.
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Simple Machines: Inclined Plane

For Teachers K - 8th
Students use an inclined plane to move a heavy load.
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Equations with Three Parts

For Students 9th - 12th
In this equations worksheet, high schoolers practice solving problems using the equation for mechanical advantage. Students complete 2 problems.
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The Mag Mile and ... Torque!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers use paper plates and detailed directions to build a model of the Michigan Avenue Bridge's gear system. By carefully measuring and cutting "teeth" for the gears of the "Gear Train," they create small gear that will...
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Ar.... What Gives?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students investigate the properties of air through inflated objects. In this physical science instructional activity, students examine gas as a state of matter. Student push on inflated objects and note the space the gas has taken up...
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Power in the Tubes

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders investigate the relationship between force, distance and time.  In this physical science lesson plan students compute the work done, graph and find the relationship between work and power. 
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Designing Windmills

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study mechanical engineering and how it plays a part in the creation of windmills. They design and test their own windmills using various materials and sail designs.
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Sentence Structure - Patterns

For Students 8th - 11th
In this grammar worksheet, students join each simple sentence into a complex sentence by adding words to make one sentence of each pair an adverbial or relative clause.
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Summer Olympics: Crossword

For Students 4th - 6th
In this summer Olympics instructional activity, students fill in a crossword answering questions about the summer Olympics. Students fill in 35 questions.
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Paper Dart Airplane

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars create a paper dart airplane and measure its flight pattern. In this flight lesson, students follow the included directions to build their own paper airplane. The young scholars change the aileron configurations to see how...
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Using Articles A or AN

For Students 4th - 6th
For this using articles worksheets, students read each sentence and fill in the blanks using the correct article. Students are given 10 sentences to practice the skill.
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It's Aviation Awareness Week!

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
There are easy ways to incorporate activities related to Aviation History Month in your classroom.
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Standard One: Lab Design and Appendix A Lab Skills

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this lab design and lab skills worksheet, students answer questions about experimental design including finding variables, determining controls, and graphing data. They answer questions about microscopy and label the parts of a...
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Get Physical

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders research a physical exercise using primary source information. They analyze the information and write a report that validates, rejects, or qualifies the information.
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What is Work?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students investigate the connection between work, potential energy, kinetic energy, and heat. In this physics lesson, students use pulleys to produce mechanical advantages and incline planes to demonstrate energy conversion.
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Experiments with Levers

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students investigate levers. In this simple machine lesson, students study levers and  the mechanical advantage of using levers. They will collect data and illustrate their systems for eight different tests.

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