In these activities for grades 6-12, students follow a tutorial to use Scratch to create a side scrolling game in which they pilot a drone through traffic.
Students will engage in flight experiments using to determine which materials & shapes are most and least susceptible to lift, weight, drag, and thrust.
Students use graphing in a real-world situation to learn about geofencing. Using coordinate systems with maps, students evaluate flight routes. Student Guide
This educator guide consists of 7 activities including a storyboard and role-play activity. The storyboard introduces students to airport and aircraft terminology including engine types
This activity explains the science behind controlling the movement of a quadcopter. Newton’s third law of motion, torque, and the fundamentals of rotary flight are introduced.
Education World offers a cargo of lessons about aviation that are just plane fun! Lessons in which students complete experiments about air flight, design model airplanes, and do much more!
Students use household items and apply the engineering design process to create X-plane gliders that can fly at least 3 meters and must remain intact when landing.