Teacher’s Packet:
Handouts for the class:
Classroom Lesson:
- Class to have previewed VHS video tape –"Look
Up"
- VHS tape "Look Up" to initiate the lesson
- Review of vocabulary and theories
- Inventory check of supplies, by school and
presenters
- Distribution of airfoil shapes sheets
- Assembly following overhead sheet
- Review of vocabulary using completed models
- Check example of flying ability of models
- Set separate surface structures in various
modes i.e. Left Aileron - Down; Left Elevator - Down;
- Right Aileron - Up; Right Elevator - Up;
- Controlled number of examples flown in
different configurations to observe flight paths
- Open question period if all
models/experiments completed
Follow-up:
- Suggested model-building
projects, experiments
- Further videos, i.e. "Look Up"
- Participate in local Science
Fair, where 99s Chapters sponsor an aviation prize book, scroll and
plane ride
For further information contact:
Susan Begg or
Pat (Patricia) Crocker
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