Beginner's
Guide to Propulsion
What Would You Fly?
Subject Area:
Language Arts, Science
Grade Level:
5-8
National Standards:
Science
Unifying
Concepts and Processes - Evidence, models, and explanation.
Science as
Inquiry - Understandings about scientific inquiry.
Science and
Technology - Understandings about science and technology.
Mathematics
Mathematics
as Problem Solving - formulate problems from situations within
and outside mathematics.
Mathematics
as Reasoning - recognize and apply deductive and inductive reasoning.
Mathematics
as Reasoning - understand and apply reasoning processes, with
special attention to spatial reasoning with proportions and graphs.
Mathematics
as Reasoning - validate their own thinking.
Technology
Technology
productivity tools - use content-specific tools, software, and
simulations to support learning and research.
Technology
communication tools - design, develop, publish and present products
using technology resources that demonstrate and communicate curriculum
concepts to audiences inside and outside the classroom.
Objectives:
After reading
an explanation from a NASA Web site, you will demonstrate an understanding
of the text by writing an essay that applies the information found in
the slides to a "real-life" question.
The
Beginner's Guide to Propulsion is a Web site of information prepared
by NASA Glenn Research Center to help you better understand aircraft propulsion.
Click Beginner's Guide Index
to access the list of slides. Open the slide called Gas
Turbine Propulsion under Propulsion Systems. Then using the
information given at What Would You Fly? Activity,
complete the activity designed to demonstrate your ability to compose
an essay that applies the information found on the World Wide Web to a
"real-life" question.
Assessment:
You will
be evaluated on the feasibility of your answers.
Evaluation:
You will
demonstrate the ability to use and understand information found on the
World Wide Web by writing an essay that applies the information found
in the slides to a "real-life" question.
Submitted by:
Robert
E. Merski, Holy Family School, Erie, Pennsylvania
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