Up, up, and away! Take your classes on a physics adventure. Learners explore the concepts important for flight. They experiment with the Bernoulli Principle while learning the forces that act on airplanes in flight.

Concepts

newton's laws of motion, bernoulli's principle, distance, time, velocity, force, aerodynamics

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Hold a competition to determine the group with the best functioning plane
• Ask early finishers to experiment with the design of their airplanes

Classroom Considerations

• Allow sufficient time to collect and prepare materials

Pros

• Includes ideas for extension activities
• Provides important background information

Cons

• None