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Education > For Educators > Lesson Plans > Grades 4-8

Educational programThe following lesson plans are available for students in grades 4-8:

A Plane Old Time (pdf)
Aircraft and Scale (pdf)
An Uplifting Experience (pdf)
Balloon Rocket (pdf)
Bernoulli's Lift (pdf)
Boomerangs Keep Coming Back (pdf)
Classify Machines That Fly (pdf)
Controlling Flight: Rudders, Ailerons and Elevators (pdf)
Diamond Kite (pdf)
Do You Have the "Wright" Stuff? (pdf)
Does Shape Affect Drag? (pdf)
Does Weight Affect Drag? (pdf)
Double-Pocket Sled Kite (pdf)
Flying Disc (pdf)
Fun with Balloons (pdf)
Gyrocopter and the Scientific Method (pdf)
Helium Balloon Race (pdf)
If Peter Pan Can Fly, Why Can't I? (pdf)
Math with the Montgolfier Balloon (pdf)
Milestones of Flight (pdf)
Paper Dart Airplane (pdf)
Paper Dutch Kite (pdf)
Paper Glider Measurement (pdf)
Parachutes, Circles and Pi ... Oh My! (pdf)
Parachutes: Is It Surface Area or Shape? (pdf)
Patang: The Indian Fighter Kite (pdf)
Propellers, Forces and Energy (pdf)
Similar Paper Airplanes (pdf)
Sled Kite (pdf)
Sled Kite Proportions (pdf)
Symmetry in Paper Airplanes (pdf)
Tetrahedron Kite (pdf)
Up, Up and Away with the Montgolfier Balloon (pdf)
What a Drag (pdf)
Where Are We? Understanding Aeronautical Charts and Topographic Maps (pdf)
Which Way Does He Go? Which Way Does She Go? (pdf)

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