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OVERCOMING GRAVITY
OVERVIEW:
This activity takes the student through all developmental levels of
learning. Making kites enables the students to include all their
sensory motor skills in making observations. Students will
conceptualize as well as construct models. The end result will be
for students to apply the basic concepts of design and flight to make an
original design for a kite.
INTRODUCTION:
This can be a 2 part lab that has students experiment with different
objects to see how aerodynamic they are. There are two labs that outline how things move with the
wind.
The first lab has students
looking at different frisbees. They will test three different types and
analyze the frisbees for distance in flight and whether one flies better
than another.
The second lab has students
design an aerodynamic plastic soda bottle to make a wind ornament. They
will use an exacto knife and a bottle to design this ornament.
VOCABULARY:
aerodynamics
design
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