Flight & Aerodynamics Camp

Flight & Aerodynamics Camp

• Grades: 4-6
• Number of Students: Up to 30
• Number of Lessons: 12
• Hours of Content: 12+
• Additional Resources: Curriculum Sample

Highlights:

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.

Recommended Settings:

• Summer Camps
• Classrooms
• Out-of-School Time Programs

Curriculum or Lesson Topics:

Subject Targets:

• Physical Science
• Engineering Design
• Social Studies/History Connections

Each Lesson Includes:

• Schedule
• Opening & Closing Discussion
• Step-By-Step Activity Instructions
• Topic Background Information & Vocabulary
• Materials List

Curriculum Topics:

1. Introduction to Flight
2. Kites Day
3. How to Get Off the Ground - Hot Air Balloons Day
4. Drag and Weight - Parachutes Day
5. Drag and Lift - Gliders Day
6. Aerodynamics - Paper Airplanes
7. Paper Airplane Design Challenge
8. Thrust and Energy Conservation - Propellers
9. Thrust and Lift - Helicopters Day
10. Pioneers of Aviation
11. Thrust and Energy Conservation
12. Rocket Design Challenge

Standard Alignments:

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

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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.

What's Included:

• 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