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Interactive
PBS

Skydive From the Stratosphere

For Students 9th - 10th
This simulation allows you to experience Joe Kittinger's famous 1960 skydiving feat. As you ascend the troposphere and stratosphere you can view changes in several atmospheric conditions. The challenge will be surviving the leap once you...
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PPT
Other

St. Chris Physics: The Physics of Skydiving

For Students 9th - 10th
This illustration provides an overview of the scientific process of when a skydiver steps out of a plane.
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Lesson Plan
Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "A Lesson Learned" Poetry Theater: A Poem in Two Voices

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "A Lesson Learned", students will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in My Dog Ate My Homework! and If Pigs Could Fly, And Other Deep Thoughts, students will dramatize a poem about a skydiver...
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Website
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Skydiving

For Students 9th - 10th
The Physics Classroom offers this animation depicting the forces acting upon a falling skydiver.
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Article
BBC

Bbc Newsround: Skydiver Breaks Sound Barrier

For Students 3rd - 5th
Felix Baumgartner travelled faster than the speed of sound when he jumped from the edge of space back down to earth. This record breaking jump hurtled Baumgartner through the sky at more than 800 miles an hour.