Lesson Plan

The Science of Flight in Relationship to Birds and Gliders

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Students study man's first form of flight which truly imitated the free-flight of birds--the glider. They examine such important contributions to the invention of the glider, such as Sir George Cayley, Jean Marie LeBris, Otto Lilienthal and others. They focus on how gliders actually fly

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Grade
7th - 12th
Subjects
Science
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Inquiry-Based Learning
Technology
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