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Future Flights: Imagine Your Own Flying Machines! Lesson PlanFuture Flights: Imagine Your Own Flying Machines! Lesson Plan
Publisher
Teach Engineering
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Grade
5th - 7th
Subjects
Science
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Duration
45 mins
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Direct Instruction
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Year
2004
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Future Flights: Imagine Your Own Flying Machines!

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What will flying look like in the future? The 21st lesson plan in a 22-part unit on aviation reviews the major aspects of the lesson plan. 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

Additional Tags

brainstorming, flight, flying machine

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

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