Goals:
- assess the societal and environmental impacts of flying devices
- investigate ways in which flying devices make use of properties of air;
- explain ways in which properties of air can be applied to the principles of flight and flying devices.
Key Vocabulary:
lift, thrust, drag, weight, compressed, launch, insulation, aviation, aerodynamics, tail, flap, ailerons,
altitude, roll, gravity, pitch, roll, yaw, streamlined, pilot, propeller, helicopter, rotor, adaptation, ascend, descend, propulsion, Bernoulli's principle, stabilize, gliding, landing, hover
altitude, roll, gravity, pitch, roll, yaw, streamlined, pilot, propeller, helicopter, rotor, adaptation, ascend, descend, propulsion, Bernoulli's principle, stabilize, gliding, landing, hover
The student can:
- understand the benefits and costs of aviation technology
- use experimentation skills to determine the properties of air
- know the adaptations that allow living things to fly
- design, build and test flying devices
- describe the four forces of flight
- identify the applications of the properties of air