The science of flight

[momo3boys]

[Miyu]

Check out this site:

http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/flightsc.htm


about 3/4 of the way down, there is a section on activities that kids can do...they look pretty good at first glance...there are also teacher's resources at the bottom of the page...

[momo3boys]

Great Site! I love the experiments and I'm sure my DS will too.

[Lenethren]

Thanks for that link.

[Aspie]

[MNKristy]

[Aspie]

[Janet Tatman]

[Mark]

those are excellent suggestions Janet,

I think I'll put them into action for the coming school session this
Spring.

The real shame is that I missed this earlier in the year.


Hey Aspie... rambling on about planes is a good thing too..
there is a lot of ground to cover in the subject of flight.
From natural to gliders to motorized to rotary...


Mark

[Aspie]

[cdprop]

[keptwoman]

Hi, my son also wanted to learn about flight and I didn't really know where to start.
I have purchased a Hands of a Child flight lapbooking kit to guide me, after having a quick look through it, it doesn't give me the answers but it does at least provide me with a format and a list of things that we should look at.
History of flight
Biography on the Wright brothers there is actually a guy in New Zealand who is believed to have flown before the Wrights, so we will study him too. http://www.nzedge.com/heroes/pearse.html
The main parts of an airplane that aid flight
The aerodynamic forces involved
A paper airplane experiment.

It all looks reasonable to me, I just need to get my behind to the library to get out some books because we begin on Monday

[Mark]

then ya better hurry..

[jessgray]

you could tie gravity into learning about flight too just a thought.