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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Airplane Wings

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the aerodynamics of a wing and how it generates lift.  For this flight lesson students complete several experiments including how to build a paper plane and how airfoils affect performance.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Airplane Parts Problem Set

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students identify the parts of an airplane and determine the part(s) of an airplane that cause a specfic action.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Opposites

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this grammar worksheet, students identify what opposites means and another name for them. Then they draw a line from each word on the left to a word on the right with the opposite meaning. Students also circle the word that is the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Understanding Evolution: Homology and Analogy

For Students 9th
In this understanding evolution activity, 9th graders define homology and analogy. Students compare and contrast similar structures in several given species.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Art to Zoo: Kiting Up The Sky: The Vehicles of Understanding

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners gain perspective on the importance of kites by reading about and discussing how kites have been used throughout history. In this kite exploration activity, students follow instructions to construct a kite to assist them in...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Entrepreneurs are Born, but Can They Be Taught?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of entrepreneurs. In this entrepreneurs lesson, students read an article about entrepreneurship and whether or not it is an inherent trait or a learned skill. Students discuss why entrepreneurship is...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Design a Theme Park

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students examine pieces of art by Alice Adams. They discuss what they see in the paintings. In groups, they design their own piece of playground equipment.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

WHY DO SOME THINGS FLOAT WHILE OTHERS SINK

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore how density can cause things to sink or float by experimenting with a jar, oil and corn syrup.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Science of Airplane Flight

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students  define terms, explain Bernoulli's principle and identify the control surfaces of an airplane.  In this investigative lesson students complete a lab activity.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Displacement Problem Set

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners calculate the length of a side of a triangle using a trigonometric function. They calculate the measure of an angle given two sides of a triangle with a trigonometric function.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Let's Think About Air

For Teachers K
Students explore the concept that air is all around us and identify ways that we can use air, and what air can do. They watch a short video that illustrates some of their findings.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What Makes a Kite Fly?

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders compare the nature of forces of gravity, lift, thrust, and drag. They select proper materials for making a kite and attach a proper tail. Students interpret and summarize the observations made during the flight of the kites.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Assembling an Aircraft

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students practice reading directions from a task card to assemble a paper aircraft during their Moon, Mars and Beyond mission. They relate the activity to their mission work and recognize the importance of reading directions.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Fill-In-The-Blanks: Simple Machines

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this simple machines worksheet, students use a word bank to complete a paragraph about simple machines. Worksheet has a link to additional activities.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Indiana Ice Investigations

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create a model of the formation of Indiana by glaciers. Working in groups with appropriate materials, they create a model documenting how glaciers moved through the land and formed the geological structure and land masses...
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Organizer
Curated OER

On the Wright Brothers' Flight Path

For Students 7th - 12th
In this airplane worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer by comparing three Wright brothers' airplanes: how were they alike and how were they different.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Intermediate Sentence Completion 8

For Students 5th - 6th
In this sentence completion worksheet, students read the sentences and choose the best word to complete the sentence. Students complete 12 sentences.
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Activity
NASA

Nasa: X1 Paper Glider Kit

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson allows students to build their own paper gliders and change characteristics of the glider to make it fly easier.
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Lesson Plan
Science Museum of Minnesota

Thinking Fountain: Straws: Make a Glider

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Design and construct a glider that files! Compare the flights with classmates' prototypes to test the success of your design.
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Tom Swift and His Air Glider by Victor Appleton

For Students 4th - 9th
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is Tom Swift and His Air Glider, an adventure multi-chapter book from 1912, written by the ghost writer Victor Appleton. In this book's quest, the main...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Balsa Glider Competition

For Teachers 5th - 7th
The purpose of this activity is to bring together the students' knowledge of engineering and airplanes and the creation of a glider model to determine how each modification affects the flight. The students will use a design procedure...
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Sky Glider

For Students 3rd - 8th
Can you build a blimp (airship) that travels in a straight path across the room? Give this one a try.
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Activity
Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Glider

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This website contains a challenge for students to build a paper bird that glides at least six feet. The site also contains a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their design process.
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Handout
Unique Australian Animals

Unique Australian Animals: Sugar Glider

For Students 9th - 10th
Sugar Glider, scientifically called Petaurus breviceps, is a small arboreal gliding possum, and a type of marsupial mammal.

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