Engineering Takes Flight

Duration: Five 50-minute sessions

Grade Levels: 4-8

Explore the flight characteristics of different materials while designing an aircraft.
Resources

Lesson Plan PDF

 

Grade Levels: 4-8

Duration: Five 50-minute sessions

Objectives:

  • Identify the flight characteristics of materials
  • Find and document multiple solutions to a given design problem.
  • Describe their process and defend why their final solution is optimal.

The Tech Challenge

This resource was developed to prepare students for the 2016 Tech Challenge. Each year The Tech Challenge invites teams of students in Grades 4-12 to use the engineering design process to solve a real-world problem.

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This activity was developed in partnership with educators from The Tech Academies Fellowship program. Tech Academy Fellows learn to be leaders of STEM education while designing and testing resources to be shared with other educators.