2003: 100 years of Powered Flight Lesson Plan

2003: 100 years of Powered Flight

lesson plan

Lesson	Student Activities	Content Knowledge	Assessment Activities	Resources	SACSA Links
					Key Competencies	Essential Learnings
1	Introduction: Set the scene: We will be designing, building and testing models of balloons, kites, gliders and planes. You will be researching, investigating and recording your activities and presenting them in a portfolio after 5 weeks. Post Box activity Timeline of the History of Flight History of Rockets Teacher uses Overhead transparencies of significant events in aviation to show rapid advances that have taken place in last fifty years. These from books from library or internet site. Students should insert important events on their own timelines.	Re-Living the Wright Way Examine prior learning Major events in aviation and space history.	Students to be made aware of KC focus Students fill in timeline. Present in groups or individual.	There are many excellent sites like this on the internet that you can search for. Student knowledge Go internet site then click History of Flight. Make notes on a timeline.	KC 1,2	Interdependence: Students understand cultural and global connections, patterns and evolutions. Futures: Students understand patterns and connections within systems and build scenarios for preferred futures.
Lesson	Student Activities	Content Knowledge	Assessment Activities	Resources	SACSA Links
					Key Competencies	Essential Learnings
2-4	Practical activities: Atmospheric Flight Moving air, heated air, atmospheric pressure Experiments in Science and Technology. Readings in S&E and English. Measurement and looking for patterns in Mathematics	Prac skills investigation	Prac skills Experiment with gliders	Prac Sheets and information Models of gliders
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					Key Competencies	Essential Learnings
5	“The History of Space Travel” Many great videos are available and can be interspersed throughout the unit.	Revisit major events from timeline.		Classroom video or Tape Services (8377 0339)
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					Key Competencies	Essential Learnings
6-10	The Wright Brothers Centenary of Powered Flight Centennial of Flight The Aeronautics Internet Textbook An extensive site filled with activities and investigations for all learning areas. Pick the intermediate section for activities and links.		Students build a glider from pattern, or design their own	This page depicts a poster celebrating 100 years of powered flight, and has many links to other sites.
Lesson	Student Activities	Content Knowledge	Assessment Activities	Resources	SACSA Links
					Key Competencies	Essential Learnings
11	ROCKETRY Video “Rocketry” (Discovery video) is excellent			Rocketry through the ages
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					Key Competencies	Essential Learnings
12-15	ROCKET ACTIVITIES 1. The Hero Engine 2. Balloon Rockets 3. Alka rockets 4. Water Rockets	Newtons laws are evident here and could be mentioned, but no mathematics, just concepts developed.	Assess students in group work	Hand out practical sheets Balloon rockets easily 2-stage with a bit of thought	KC 1,2,6
Lesson	Student Activities	Content Knowledge	Assessment Activities	Resources	SACSA Links
					Key Competencies	Essential Learnings
16-18	The Austral Shuttle Glider Kits Students have 3 classroom lessons to build and test their vehicles. Alternative designs and kits abound on internet, however these have been tested and fly well.			SASTA has these kits and flight test plans.
Lesson	Student Activities	Content Knowledge	Assessment Activities	Resources	SACSA Links
					Key Competencies	Essential Learnings
19	Past, present and Future	Review timeline and involve students in discussions on what will occur in next 50 years, next 100 years.		Use the internet or just brainstorm for ideas	KC 1,2	Futures: Students understand patterns and connections within systems and build scenarios for preferred futures.

Lesson	Student Activities	Content Knowledge	Assessment Activities	Resources	SACSA Links
					Key Competencies	Essential Learnings
20	DEBATE The value of space stations and future space exploration to our society		Rubrics available at Rubistar