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.
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.