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Things That Fly
Students examine animals that can fly and discover that those animals need wind and wings to be able to leave the ground. They create a chart with two sides and they divide animals and objects that fly.
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The Pressure's Off II - Flight
Students investigate what allows air plane to fly, why birds can fly and why people can't. They construct a giant hot air balloon that can be launched using only a hair dryer.
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Flying Through the Solar System
Students create a model of the solar system out of candy. They write a book about their travels through the Solar System, beginning at age ten and reaching Pluto at age seventy.
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Wright Brothers Timeline
Young scholars research the events that were important in the Wright brothers' lives. They develop an accurate timeline of those events and discover why the Wright brothers are important in history.
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Flying To Fluency
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding and rereading strategies, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed...
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"Flying to Fluency"
Students become fluent readers by decoding words and practicing mastery of phoneme correspondences. They also practice repeated readings of texts along with timed readings of the book, "Pat's Jam." Each student interacts with a bulletin...
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Flying Through The World Of Books
Students practice various strategies for fluent, expressive reading. After reviewing chunking and book talks, students choose an appropriate leveled book to read. They are assessed on their reading fluency and reading expression after...
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Guys From Space Word Search Puzzle
In this language arts worksheet, students examine 10 words in a word bank which are somewhat related to space exploration (two of the words in the word bank are "scary" and "switches.") Students locate the words in the word search puzzle.
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Internet Inventors Scavenger Hunt
In this inventors scavenger hunt worksheet, students research 10 different significant inventors known to history. First, they read each question to determine which inventor to search for using the Internet. Then, students write a...
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Straw Rockets in Flight! Engineer's Delight
Sixth graders study air compression and how it can power a rocket. In this creative lesson students work with a partner and build a rocket then compare air compressions and graph their results.
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What's A Mammal?
Students examine mammals understanding what a mammal is and reviewing the eleven mammal groups. In this science lesson, students play a game known as Mystery Mammal Game. Yet, first students research about the mammal and then give...
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Learn to Build a Rocket in 5 Days
Students explore physics by participating in an engineering activity. In this rocket lesson, students define a list of scientific vocabulary terms such as "re-engineering" and "trade-off." Students identify the rocket creation process by...
Royal Society of Chemistry
Gimli Glider—Anecdotes for Chemistry Teachers
What's the moral of this story? Units save lives! Teach measurement conversion through storytelling in a quick math-based lesson. Young scientists learn how one country's decision to swap from imperial to metric standard units caused an...
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Who Am I?
Birds and ducks are the stars of this colorful word search. In it, learners identify 16 different species of birds and ducks. There are colorful and accurate pictures of each of the birds. Pupils must match up the picture with...
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Golf
Are you starting a unit on golf in your physical education class? An outline for the entire unit includes daily lessons, warm-up activities, a quiz, and all the many basic aspects of playing a game of golf. Look through this resource and...
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May the Force Be with You: Weight
Too much material will weigh you down. The sixth segment in a series of 22 highlights how weight affects a plane. Pupils learn that engineers take the properties of materials, including weight, when designing something.
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The Old White Sheet Trick
Students attract night animals. In this Science lesson, students use a large white surface and a light at night. Students observe and record what they see.
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Altitude of A Rocket
The first two slides set up the conditions for this "experiment on paper". A fun activity where students chose which of the rockets will fly higher in the situations given. Each slide is followed by an answer page and this presentation...
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The Aspect Ratio of Wings
Junior engineers examine aspect ration in airplane wings. Using the length and width of two differetn wings, they calculate the aspect ratios and compare drag rankings. An engineering or space science class would benefit from this...
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Latin Storytelling: Aeneas Flees from Troy
Students practice Latin language skills by reciting information from the tale of Aeneas' flight from Troy. They respond in Latin to prompts and questions posed in Latin by the teacher. They demonstrate they know who the main characters...
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Blast Off Into Space
Students explore the vastness of the universe and identify terms used to describe solar systems. They take a tour of our sun and its neighbors and discover how spacecrafts can fly and then use their imaginations to draw and color a...
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Rising With the Weather
Students research how hot-air balloons rise and descend, and find out how their operation is affected by weather. They identify conditions in which it is safe to fly hot-air balloons, and equipment necessary for crew and passenger...
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Kelly's Kindergarten: K Words
All hail the king! Study the letter K with a worksheet that features six kings flying their flags, on which kids can glue pictures of words that also begin with (or include) the letter K.
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Swim the Open Sea: Analyzing Duel Vectors
This dual vector lesson has the class watch a video about a person's swim of the English Channel. The class then uses a computer program to analyze dual vectors of wind's effect on a flight path of a plane as compared to the water...
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