AERONAUTICS CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES

A wide variety of classroom activities involving aeronautics have been developed by active teachers, educators, and NASA engineers and scientists for the NASA Glenn Learning Technologies Project during 1996 and 1997. Here is an index of aeronautics activities. Just click on the name to view the activity.

Fundamentals

• The First and Second Laws of Motion
• Newton's Third Law of Motion
• Knots versus Miles per Hour
• Collecting Data on Running Speeds
• Graphing Data from a Spreadsheet
• Experiment: Vector Addition by the Numerical Method

Aeronautics

• Archimedes' Principle : Buoyancy
  
• Pascal's Principle and Hydraulics
  
• Fluid Pressure and Depth
  
• Finding the Velocity of a fluid in a confined container
  
• Using a wind tunnel to measure the drag coefficient on student designed dragster cars
  
• Lift Formula
  
• Weight and Balance Forces acting on an Airplane
  
• How to build a Paper Jet Model
  
• Hot Air Balloon
  
• Musical Tube
  
• Ping Pong Ball Curves
  
• Flying Tube
  
• Flying Wing
  
• McEagle Styrofoam Glider
  
• Finger Boomerangs
  
• Four-Wing Paper Boomerang
  
• "Maple Seed" Helicopters
  
• Wooden Helicopters
  

Is Air Something?(Grades K-6)

• Matter
• States of Matter
• Air
• Air is Something
• Does Air Do Work?
• Air - Graphing
• Air can do Work
• Work Air Does
• How the force of air helps an airplane fly
• Airplane Creation (Dart)
• Airplane Creation (Blunt Nose)
• Airplane Creation (Student Design)
• Take a Plane Trip (Creative Writing)
• Culminating Activity

LIFT (Grades 9-12)

• Paper Airplane Activity
• Wing Area of Scale Models
• UpLIFTing Calculations
• Crossword Puzzle
• Airplane Gallery
• Further Investigations

Convection Activities (Grades 4-6)

• Whirly-Gig
• Mysterious Coin
• Inflating Balloon
• Floating Bag

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