Flight - Complete Lesson

Flight is a complete science unit for middle years students that requires very little prep by the teacher. It is completely laid out with teacher notes and a sequence of activities. Students will learn about all the forces that affect flight. They will also experience many hands-on activities to reinforce the concepts. The culminating activity is to design and construct their own aircraft that can fly to a target area.

This product includes:

1. Teacher Notes and Sequence of Activities

2. Student Notes

3. Investigating Air Pressure

4. Fluid Dynamics

5. Does Air Have Mass?

6. Adaptations for Movement Through Fluids

7. Maple Seeds in Motion

8. Wings and Spoilers

9. Introducing Bernoulli

10. Bernoulli’s Principle

11. How Can Heavy Objects Fly?

12. Paper Drag

13. Using Drag

14. Drag in Sports

15. Designing a Fair Test

16. Parachute Challenge

17. Rocket Balloon Thrust

18. What Forces Affect an Airplane in Flight?

19. Parts of an Airplane

20. Styrofoam Glider

21. Airplane Development Milestones

22. Flight Design Project

23. Review Sheet

24. Unit Test and Answer Key

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