Personal dreams of flight eventually brought forth the science and technology to achieve what most called impossible – manned flight. In this three-week unit, students start by building balsa gliders and learning how size affects flight, how to calculate glider ratios, and how to build a glider to stay airborne as long as possible. Moving on to powered flight, students learn about elastic potential energy and kinetic energy before building and flying a rubber band-powered model plane. They test and modify their airplane to increase flight time and then try to engineer a model plane that will stay in the air as long as possible.
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