This lesson introduces students to the art of designing an airplane through paper airplane constructions. The goal is that students will learn important aircraft design considerations and how engineers must iterate their designs to achieve success. Students first follow several basic paper airplane models, after which they will then design their own paper airplane. They will also learn how engineers make models to test ideas and designs.

Concepts

aerodynamics, engineering, paper airplanes, drag, stem

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Additional Tags

aircraft design, airplane models, aileron, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, aeronautical engineering

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Classroom Considerations

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