How Things Fly: Activities for Teaching Flight
How Things Fly: Activities for Teaching Flight
Description:
"How Things Fly: Activities for Teaching Flight" has three lesson plans. In Lesson One, 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. In Lesson Two, your students will conduct a series of hands-on experiments that will help them to understand the role of lift in fixed-wing flight. Students will observe the flow of air and water around several surfaces and then consider the dynamics of airflow around an aircraft wing. In Lesson Three, your students will observe photographs of selected twentieth-century aircraft at the National Air and Space Museum and note differences in the design of aircraft wings, fuselages, and engines. Each of the three lesson plans has student handouts (in html and Adobe Acrobat format). The unit includes a Take Home Page and a list of additional resources, including web sites.
Education Levels:
Unspecified
Subject:
Physical Sciences, Physics, Measurement
Resource Type:
Unit of instruction
Medium:
Text/HTML
Beneficiary:
Students
Online provider:
Smithsonian Office of Education
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