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Future Flights: Imagine Your Own Flying Machines!

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This Future Flights: Imagine Your Own Flying Machines! lesson plan also includes:

What will flying look like in the future? The 21st instructional activity in a 22-part unit on aviation reviews the major aspects of the instructional activity. Pupils brainstorm ideas of a future flying machine.

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Concepts
flight, airplanes, paper airplanes, aviation, aeronautics, inventions, brainstorming, design, engineering design, technology resources
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Additional Tags
brainstorming, flight, flying machine
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Instructional Ideas
  • Create a graphic organizer to help the class remember the parts of the SCAMPER technique
  • Research what early inventors thought flying would look like in the 21st century
Classroom Considerations
  • Assumes the class knows the forces acting upon an airplane, what makes an airplane fly and how to control one
Pros
  • Provides an alternative if time does not allow for the final activity
  • Includes assessment suggestions
Cons
  • Does not define the SCAMPER technique very well
NGSS
MS-ETS1-1