Lesson Plan

Pbs Teachers: Supersonic Dream

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Examine how fuel use affects the mass of different planes during flight. This lesson teaches students how to determine the per person fuel cost of a transatlantic flight for seven airplanes, and display the results on a bar graph. Three student handouts are available in PDFs for printing.

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Concepts
fuel efficiency, mass
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Additional Tags
aircraft, calculate fuel efficiency, calculate fuel use, effect of fuel use on planes, fuel use in planes, speed and resistance, transatlantic flights, nova, pbs
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)