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WE CAN FLY, YOU AND I INTERDISCIPLINARY LEARNING ACTIVITIES Science • Create a classroom model of an airport terminal. • Collect and interpret weather maps from the local newspapers. • Discuss what kinds of science would be important for pilots to study and understand. Why? • Discuss why weather is an important factor for aircraft to fly safely. • List and discuss environmental concerns when constructing a new airport in any community. Mathematics • Discuss what the numbers on a runway mean. • If traveling to different times zones, determine what the local time will be when reaching the destination. • Make a graph comparing the distances flown by the rotor motor, bag balloon, and delta wing glider. • Determine how many years elapsed between different time line events. Technology Education • Discuss technology that contributes to airport safety. • Discuss the importance of computers on aircraft and in airports. Fine Arts • Make a mobile using aviation as a theme. • Design or draw the layout of an airport. • Design art that depicts what airports will look like in the future. 110 Aeronautics: An Educator’s Guide with Activities in Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education EG-1998-09-105-HQ
Social Studies • Undertake a field trip to the local airport. • Create an advertisement to market your privately owned airline. • Debate possible locations for a new airport in your community. • Research the history of your local airport. • Invite airport employees, or pilots, to speak to students about their careers in aviation/aerospace. • Discuss careers available in the aviation field. • Interview airport employees. • Research the development of airports. How have airports changed? Language Arts • Write an imaginary conversation between the control tower and pilot. • Fill out a logbook as if you were a pilot for an airline. • Role-play as a newspaper reporter at a major historical aviation event. • Write a story about an aviation-related job. • Imagine you are a pilot or navigator; you just completed an adventurous flight, and you are describing the flight for a television news program. Health/Physical Education • Discuss the feelings experienced when flying in an airplane. • Determine how long it will take to walk or run the distance of a typical airport runway (.6 - 3.0 km). • Determine how many students standing shoulder-to-shoulder it takes to equal the wingspan of these aircraft: 747 airliner (60.3 m wingspan), F-15 Eagle (13.2 m wingspan), and X-15 rocket airplane (6.8 m wingspan). Aeronautics: An Educator’s Guide with Activities in Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education 111 EG-1998-09-105-HQ
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Sled Kite Aeronautics: An Educator
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