Students conduct internet research on aviation and pioneer aviators. They create an alphabet book r with flight related terms, write a short biography of a pioneer aviator and take part in a paper plane flying contest.

Up, up, and away! Take your classes on a physics adventure. Learners explore the concepts important for flight. They experiment with the Bernoulli Principle while learning the forces that act on airplanes in flight.

Students infer America's attitude towards aviation in the early 1900s. In this The Aerial Age activity, students analyze early 1900s literature, music, advertisements, and popular culture in reference to aviation. Students represent...

Students explain basic principles of aeronautics such as gravity and lift. In this How Things Fly lesson plan, students visit the interactive, hands-on How Things Fly gallery at the Smithsonian. Students perform three experiments that...

Students practice reading comprehension, note taking and writing skills. In this literacy and writing lesson, students read about the invention of airplanes, women pilots and the space race before writing their own news article on "100...

Students locate images of two things that fly on the Internet and print them. They develop graphic organizers to compare and contrast the two images and exhibit the images along with the organizers in a classroom gallery.

Students view pictures of Amelia Earhart and discuss the social and historical context of her life. They read excerpts of Earhart's autobiography "The Fun of It" and analyze her purpose in writing it.

Students use experimental procedures to design and test the flight distances of paper airplanes. In this flight experiment instructional activity, students use the experimental science process to design and conduct an investigation to...

Learners participate in propeller experiments. They research the purpose of the propeller and its functions. Students create and experiment with blades and straws to produce a breeze.

After reading an interesting account of how the X-1 aircraft was designed, built, and utilized, young engineers try their hand at constructing a paper glider version of the airplane. They cut out the plane out of a nicely designed...

Students research the Wright Brothers historic first flight and design a travel poster asking for volunteers to participate. Write a newspaper account of the first flight and include how the local people may have felt about the Wright...

Students 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 students change the aileron configurations to see how it affects...

Students review the principles of flight before performing a series of simple experiments. Working in small groups, they complete hands-on activities that demonstrate the principles that make it possible for an airplane to lift into air...

Students conduct their personal investigations into paper airplane flight. Cooperative teams are formed, with students choosing the paper airplane design that they are most interested in building.

Students design and test paper airplanes to understand the concept of lift and how it affects flight. This technology-based Science activity is excellent for use with upper-elementary and middle-level learners and uses spreadsheet...

Students are able to observe chemcial and physical changes while producing a brilliant formation of foam. They are able to experience the use of an indicator in the reaction. Students record information based on their observations.

Students participate in a instructional activity that investigates Newton's Second Law of Motion. They conduct an experiment of observing balls that are rolled down a ramp. The instructional activity includes background information for...

Students examine the different kinds of propellers and their functions.  In this airplane lesson students build a hand made propeller.

Ninth graders study the basic principles of flight, including the Bernoulli Principle and Newton's Laws. They construct and study model aircraft

Students discover the properties of matter and how they change when composite materials are produced.  In this informative lesson students write up a question and procedure to an experiment then analyze and draw conclusions based on...

Students measure the angles of wings and tails of various aircraft using a protractor. They estimate and check their measurements. They investigate aircraft being developed and tested at NASA Dryden.

Students explore the history of the airplane and the Wright brothers.  In this aviation lesson students examine the Wright brothers stories and kites.

Students construct a hovercraft following specific procedures. In this technology lesson, students explain the physics principles behind hovercraft. They compare and contrast this machine with the aircraft.

Second graders experience practicing with a wide variety of vocabulary terms that relate to the Vista/Module "Angular Momentum:" momentum, inertia, force; motion, direction, centripetal force; angular momentum, gyroscope, resist. They...