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Audience

Educators

Grade Levels

Grades 5-8, Informal Education

Subject

Physical Science, Flight and Aeronautics

Type

Educator Guides, Lesson Plans / Activities

These eight hands-on science activities are aligned to Next Generation Science Standards. The activities demonstrate how airplanes fly and how Newton’s Third Law of Motion applies to the flight. Activities include learning stations about the four forces of flight, and making wind socks, a ring wing glider, a sled kite, a foam glider and a rotor motor.

Aeronautics Module (PDF)

This module is part of the NASA Out of School Learning Network set of activities.
Other modules in the series:
Earth and Space Explorers
Living and Working in Space
Rockets Rock