Flight & Aerodynamics
- Price
- 1,025 USD
Ready for Take-Off!
Flight and Aerodynamics is packed with 12 engaging, one-hour lessons centered around the thrills of aviation. As individual sessions or a sky-high intensive, this program combines the engineering design process, creative thinking, the arts and a collaborative environment as it challenges learners to explore the wonders of flight.
Whether students are designing experiments to investigate history’s most iconic flying machines or observing abstract physics concepts like energy conservation and buoyancy, this multi-subject approach to flight investigation provides endless opportunities for students to develop and nurture the foundations of scientific inquiry and their critical thinking skills.
Grades: 4-6
Students: Up to 30
Contact Hours: 12+
Subject Targets:
Physical Science, Engineering Design, Social Studies/History Connections
Reusability:
- Refill Kit Available.This product offers affordable consumable refill kits. See the materials tab for details.
Settings & Tech Requirements
Recommended Settings:
- Summer Camps
- Classrooms
- Out-of-School Time Programs
Tech Requirements:
- None
Curriculum Topics
Each Lesson Includes:
- Schedule
- Opening & Closing Discussion
- Step-By-Step Activity Instructions
- Topic Background Information & Vocabulary
- Materials List
Curriculum Topics:
- Introduction to Flight
- Kites Day
- How to Get Off the Ground - Hot Air Balloons Day
- Drag and Weight - Parachutes Day
- Drag and Lift - Gliders Day
- Aerodynamics - Paper Airplanes
- Paper Airplane Design Challenge
- Thrust and Energy Conservation - Propellers
- Thrust and Lift - Helicopters Day
- Pioneers of Aviation
- Thrust and Energy Conservation
- Rocket Design Challenge
Professional Development
Product Orientation:
- Half-hour free webinar orientation for purchases of $500+
- One-hour free webinar orientation for purchases of $1000+
- Additional training available for purchase
Materials
Complete Program Includes:
Flight & Aerodynamics comes with all the supplies needed for 30 students to complete 12 one-hour activities:
- Instructor Guide: 1
- Printed Student Pages: 8 sets
- Storage Tub: 1
- #2 Pencils (12 pack): 2
- Alka Seltzer Tablets: 16
- Bag of Rubberbands: 1
- Balloon Helicopters: 12
- Balloons: 100
- Balls of String: 8
- Beads: 400
- Bottles of Glue: 8
- Boxes of Paper Clips: 3
- Colored Pencils (12 pack): 8
- Dry Erase Page Pockets: 16
- Dry Erase Markers: 16
- Electric Tea Kettle: 1
- Film Canisters: 8
- Glue Gun (with 15 glue sticks): 1
- Grocery Bags: 8
- Hairdryer: 1
- Hole Punches: 8
- Modeling Clay (1 lb): 1
- Plastic Bins: 16
- Plastic Bottles: 8
- Rolls of Duct Tape: 2
- Rolls of Masking Tape: 1
- Rubberband Airplanes: 8
- Scissors: 16
- Sheets of Cardboard: 8
- Sheets of Construction Paper: 50
- Sheets of Newsprint: 30
- Sheets of White Paper: 500
- Stopwatches: 8
- Straws: 125
- Tape Measures: 8
- Transparent Tape Dispensers: 8
- Tissue Paper (24 pack): 2
- Wooden Dowels (9" x 1/8"): 30
- Wooden Dowels (12" x 1/8"): 30
- Ziplock Bag (1 gallon): 1
- Access to the Digital Resource Portal
Curriculum Print & Digital Includes:
- Instructor Guide: 1
- Printed Student Pages: 8 sets
- Envelope for Student Pages: 1
- Access to the Digital Resource Portal
Refill Kit Available:
Looking to use your Flight & Aerodynamics kit with the next group of combat aces? This refill kit will have them airborne in no time flat!
- #2 Pencils (12 pack): 2
- Alka Seltzer Tablets: 16
- Bag of Rubberbands: 1
- Balloon Helicopters: 12
- Balloons: 100
- Balls of String: 8
- Bottles of Glue: 8
- Boxes of Paper Clips: 3
- Glue Gun Sticks: 15
- Grocery Bags: 8
- Rolls of Duct Tape: 2
- Rolls of Masking Tape: 2
- Sheets of Cardboard: 8
- Sheets of Construction Paper: 50
- Sheets of Newsprint: 30
- Sheets of White Paper: 500
- Straws: 125
- Tissue Paper (24 pack): 2
- Transparent Tape Dispensers: 8
- Wooden Dowels (9" x 1/8"): 30
- Wooden Dowels (12" x 1/8"): 30
Standards & Alignment
Habits of Mind:
16 thinking habits developed by Art Costa and Bena Kallick to empower students to succeed in a 21st-century learning environment.
- Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations
- Creating, Imagining, Innovating
- Finding Humor
- Listening with Understanding and Empathy
- Managing Impulsivity
- Persisting
- Questioning and Posing Problems
- Striving For Accuracy
- Taking Responsible Risks
- Thinking Flexibly
- Thinking Interdependently
21st Century Skills:
A set of widely-applicable abilities essential for success in the information age.
- Communication and Collaboration
- Creativity and Innovation
- Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
- Flexibility and Adaptability
- Initiative and Self-Direction
- Productivity and Accountability
- Social and Cross-Cultural Skills
© 2019 Battelle for Kids. battelleforkids.org. All Rights Reserved. Battelle for Kids was not involved in the production of this product and does not endorse it.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts:
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.4.1.C Pose and respond to specific questions to clarify or follow up on information, and make comments that contribute to the discussion and link to the remarks of others.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.4.4 Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.
Common Core State Standards Initiative © Copyright 2010. National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers. All rights reserved.
Next Generation Science Standards:*
- NGSS 3-5-ETS1-1 Engineering Design
- NGSS 3-5-ETS1-3 Engineering Design
- NGSS MS-ETS1-1 Engineering Design
- NGSS MS-ETS1-2 Engineering Design
- NGSS MS-PS1-4 Structure and Properties Matter
- NGSS MS-PS1-6 Chemical Reactions
- NGSS MS-PS2-2 Forces and Motion
- NGSS MS-PS3-5 Energy
* Next Generation Science Standards and NGSS is a registered trademark of WestEd. Neither WestEd nor the lead states and partners that developed the Next Generation Science Standards were involved in the production of this product, and do not endorse it.
About the Author
John Allan
John Allan holds a master’s degree in astronomy from the University of Virginia, and a bachelor’s degree in physics and astronomy from Macalester College. He has pursued research in radio astronomy at ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, as well as at the University of Virginia and Macalester College. John has taught science and math to students from middle school through college level as a tutor and teaching assistant. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon, where he loves to read science fiction and imagine the future of space travel.
Sarah Goff
Sarah Goff teaches elementary and middle school music in Portland, Oregon. She holds a master’s degree in teaching music from Oregon State
University and a bachelor’s in music from Grinnell College. Her research with Jason Silveira in teacher attitudes toward transgender individuals and supportive school practices was published in the Journal of Research in Music Education in Summer 2016. She enjoys biking to work, where she experiences the effects of drag and streamlining firsthand!
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Flight & Aerodynamics
Pricing Options:
- Complete Program (Materials + Curriculum): 1,025.00 USD
- Curriculum Print & Digital: 395.00 USD
- Refill Kit: 395.00 USD
Recommended Settings:
- Summer Camps
- Classrooms
- Out-of-School Time Programs
Tech Requirements:
- None
Each Lesson Includes:
- Schedule
- Opening & Closing Discussion
- Step-By-Step Activity Instructions
- Topic Background Information & Vocabulary
- Materials List
Curriculum Topics:
- Introduction to Flight
- Kites Day
- How to Get Off the Ground - Hot Air Balloons Day
- Drag and Weight - Parachutes Day
- Drag and Lift - Gliders Day
- Aerodynamics - Paper Airplanes
- Paper Airplane Design Challenge
- Thrust and Energy Conservation - Propellers
- Thrust and Lift - Helicopters Day
- Pioneers of Aviation
- Thrust and Energy Conservation
- Rocket Design Challenge
Product Orientation:
- Half-hour free webinar orientation for purchases of $500+
- One-hour free webinar orientation for purchases of $1000+
- Additional training available for purchase
Complete Program Includes:
Flight & Aerodynamics comes with all the supplies needed for 30 students to complete 12 one-hour activities:
- Instructor Guide: 1
- Printed Student Pages: 8 sets
- Storage Tub: 1
- #2 Pencils (12 pack): 2
- Alka Seltzer Tablets: 16
- Bag of Rubberbands: 1
- Balloon Helicopters: 12
- Balloons: 100
- Balls of String: 8
- Beads: 400
- Bottles of Glue: 8
- Boxes of Paper Clips: 3
- Colored Pencils (12 pack): 8
- Dry Erase Page Pockets: 16
- Dry Erase Markers: 16
- Electric Tea Kettle: 1
- Film Canisters: 8
- Glue Gun (with 15 glue sticks): 1
- Grocery Bags: 8
- Hairdryer: 1
- Hole Punches: 8
- Modeling Clay (1 lb): 1
- Plastic Bins: 16
- Plastic Bottles: 8
- Rolls of Duct Tape: 2
- Rolls of Masking Tape: 1
- Rubberband Airplanes: 8
- Scissors: 16
- Sheets of Cardboard: 8
- Sheets of Construction Paper: 50
- Sheets of Newsprint: 30
- Sheets of White Paper: 500
- Stopwatches: 8
- Straws: 125
- Tape Measures: 8
- Transparent Tape Dispensers: 8
- Tissue Paper (24 pack): 2
- Wooden Dowels (9" x 1/8"): 30
- Wooden Dowels (12" x 1/8"): 30
- Ziplock Bag (1 gallon): 1
- Access to the Digital Resource Portal
Curriculum Print & Digital Includes:
- Instructor Guide: 1
- Printed Student Pages: 8 sets
- Envelope for Student Pages: 1
- Access to the Digital Resource Portal
Refill Kit Available:
Looking to use your Flight & Aerodynamics kit with the next group of combat aces? This refill kit will have them airborne in no time flat!
- #2 Pencils (12 pack): 2
- Alka Seltzer Tablets: 16
- Bag of Rubberbands: 1
- Balloon Helicopters: 12
- Balloons: 100
- Balls of String: 8
- Bottles of Glue: 8
- Boxes of Paper Clips: 3
- Glue Gun Sticks: 15
- Grocery Bags: 8
- Rolls of Duct Tape: 2
- Rolls of Masking Tape: 2
- Sheets of Cardboard: 8
- Sheets of Construction Paper: 50
- Sheets of Newsprint: 30
- Sheets of White Paper: 500
- Straws: 125
- Tissue Paper (24 pack): 2
- Transparent Tape Dispensers: 8
- Wooden Dowels (9" x 1/8"): 30
- Wooden Dowels (12" x 1/8"): 30
Habits of Mind:
16 thinking habits developed by Art Costa and Bena Kallick to empower students to succeed in a 21st-century learning environment.
- Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations
- Creating, Imagining, Innovating
- Finding Humor
- Listening with Understanding and Empathy
- Managing Impulsivity
- Persisting
- Questioning and Posing Problems
- Striving For Accuracy
- Taking Responsible Risks
- Thinking Flexibly
- Thinking Interdependently
21st Century Skills:
A set of widely-applicable abilities essential for success in the information age.
- Communication and Collaboration
- Creativity and Innovation
- Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
- Flexibility and Adaptability
- Initiative and Self-Direction
- Productivity and Accountability
- Social and Cross-Cultural Skills
© 2019 Battelle for Kids. battelleforkids.org. All Rights Reserved. Battelle for Kids was not involved in the production of this product and does not endorse it.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts:
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.4.1.C Pose and respond to specific questions to clarify or follow up on information, and make comments that contribute to the discussion and link to the remarks of others.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.4.4 Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.
Common Core State Standards Initiative © Copyright 2010. National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers. All rights reserved.
Next Generation Science Standards:*
- NGSS 3-5-ETS1-1 Engineering Design
- NGSS 3-5-ETS1-3 Engineering Design
- NGSS MS-ETS1-1 Engineering Design
- NGSS MS-ETS1-2 Engineering Design
- NGSS MS-PS1-4 Structure and Properties Matter
- NGSS MS-PS1-6 Chemical Reactions
- NGSS MS-PS2-2 Forces and Motion
- NGSS MS-PS3-5 Energy
* Next Generation Science Standards and NGSS is a registered trademark of WestEd. Neither WestEd nor the lead states and partners that developed the Next Generation Science Standards were involved in the production of this product, and do not endorse it.
John Allan
John Allan holds a master’s degree in astronomy from the University of Virginia, and a bachelor’s degree in physics and astronomy from Macalester College. He has pursued research in radio astronomy at ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, as well as at the University of Virginia and Macalester College. John has taught science and math to students from middle school through college level as a tutor and teaching assistant. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon, where he loves to read science fiction and imagine the future of space travel.
Sarah Goff
Sarah Goff teaches elementary and middle school music in Portland, Oregon. She holds a master’s degree in teaching music from Oregon State
University and a bachelor’s in music from Grinnell College. Her research with Jason Silveira in teacher attitudes toward transgender individuals and supportive school practices was published in the Journal of Research in Music Education in Summer 2016. She enjoys biking to work, where she experiences the effects of drag and streamlining firsthand!
Last summer we were able to use the Flight and Aerodynamics Kit as a tie-in to summer reading programs at the library. The kids loved meeting at the park and creating kites! The kit allowed us to still offer hands-on programming during the pandemic in a social distanced outdoor setting.
