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National Air and Space Museum: Wright Brothers: Engineering the Wright Way InteractiveNational Air and Space Museum: Wright Brothers: Engineering the Wright Way Interactive
Publisher
Smithsonian Institution
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Grade
5th - 8th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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Interactives
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National Air and Space Museum: Wright Brothers: Engineering the Wright Way

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Great interactive provides students with an opportunity to use engineering skills to design and test airplane wings based on the methods of the Wright brothers. Step into the workshop and design a set of wings that will fly your glider the farthest.

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Concepts

wright brothers

Additional Tags

aeronautical engineering, engineering design process, lift-drag ratio, kitty hawk, orville wright, smithsonian: engineering the wright way, wilbur wright, airplane

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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