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Introduction
This lesson will review the basic principles of flight, including the Bernoulli Principle and Newton's Laws. Students will construct and study model aircraft and conduct research on the Internet.
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Subject: Physics
Topic: Flight
Grade Level: 9
To student lesson plan
Standards Addressed
Physics
- Motion and Forces
1. Newton's Laws predict the
motion of most objects.
b. When forces
are balanced no accelerarion occurs.
f. Applying a
force to an object perpendicular to the direction of its motioncauses the
object to change
direction
but not speed.
Instructional Objectives
1. Students will be able to explain how an airfoil shape produces lift.
2. Students will be able to identify the control surfaces of an aircraft and explain the effect that each has on controlling the flight of the aircraft.
3. Students will be able
to identify which features of an aircraft's design determine its flight
characteristics.
Introductory Activity
Students will view videos of
aircraft in flight and examine model aircraft with working control surfaces.
Enabling Activity(ies)
Students will research the principles of flight and the basic principles of aerodynamics, including Bernoulli's Principle and the relationships among the forces acting on an airplane in flight.
Students will perform several experiments to reinforce their research.
Students will construct model aircraft with working control surfaces. Each control surface will configured individually and the models will be flown to determine the effect.
Students will research a topic of their
choosing related to aviation using the Internet and other available
resources.
Culminating Activity
Students will be given a series
of maneuvers for their model planes to perform and will configure the
control surfaces to perform each maneuver.
Students
will also make a multimedia presentation on their research results.
Assessment
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A pretest
will
be given to assess competancy in the subject area prior to the lesson.
Results will not be used for grading purposes but will be compared to a
post test to assess improvement.
Several labs will be done during the lesson and will account for 20% of the grade.
A presentation project will occupy the majority of the student's time. and will account for 60% of the grade.The presentation project will be assessed on the basis of -------------------------------------
A short-answer written test will be taken at the end of the lesson and will incorporate question from both the assigned work and the presentation made to the class. This test will account for the remaining 20% of the grade.
An overall score of 80% will
be considered mastery of the lesson.
Results
After implementing your lesson
(sometime between January & March), insert a chart of your pre-test,
post-test, and culminating assessment data.
Web
Resources & Supplementary Materials
Introductory Activity
List and link the web resources
for this activity here. Also link supplementary materials such as PD. files
and /or document files.
A
pretest will be given at the beginning of the lesson.
Note: for this link, exit
the Word program to return to this page.
Enabling Activity
List and link the web resources
for your learning Activity(ies) here. Also link supplementary materials
such as PDF files and /or document files.
Resources such as museums, aircraft reference sites, paper airplane sites, and airplane videos will be used in this section. Note: for all these links, click "Back" to return to this page.
Culminating Activity
List and link the web resources
for this activity here. Also link supplementary materials such as PDF files
and /or document files.
Willows High
School
203 N. Murdock
Ave.
Willows CA 95988
Tom
Chisholm
Last Revised:
06/12/2000