Includes Lessons and Curriculum
Edventures Flight & Aerodynamics Kit
Students investigate the science behind flight with physics lessons for kids.
Aerodynamics lessons for kids inspire collaboration as students design kites, paper planes, gliders, and more. Using the engineering design process, they learn physics concepts like buoyancy and energy conservation, thrust, drag, and lift. With projects such as designing and building a paper plane that flies the furthest, students test variables as they develop critical thinking skills and the foundations of scientific inquiry.
Ideal for summer camps, classrooms, homeschooling, or afterschool programs, this curriculum fosters interdisciplinary skills across 12 one-hour projects. Accommodates 30 students. Recommended for Upper Elementary.
Standards: Aligns with NGSS, CCSS-Math, CCSS-ELA, NCSA
Next Generation Science Standards*:
- 3-5-ETS1-1: Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
- 3-5-ETS1-3: Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.
- MS-ETS1-1: Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, taking into account relevant scientific principles and potential impacts on people and the natural environment that may limit possible solutions.
- MS-ETS1-2: Evaluate competing design solutions using a systematic process to determine how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
- MS-PS1-4: Develop a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion, temperature, and state of a pure substance when thermal energy is added or removed.
- MS-PS1-6: Undertake a design project to construct, test, and modify a device that either releases or absorbs thermal energy by chemical processes.
- MS-PS2-2: Plan an investigation to provide evidence that the change in an object’s motion depends on the sum of the forces on the object and the mass of the object.
- MS-PS3-5: Construct, use, and present arguments to support the claim that when the motion energy of an object changes, energy is transferred to or from the object.
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