Audience
Students
Grade Levels
Grades K-4, Grades 5-8
Subject
Engineering Design
Type
Hands-on Activities
Make your own hovercraft using simple supplies! A hovercraft is a device that moves by floating on a cushion of air. NASA uses hovercraft to test spacecraft and the ways they need to move. This is because the objects we put in space experience hardly any friction – and the same is true of hovercraft.