Engineering Takes Flight
Grades 4-8 Five 50-minute sessions Engineering English Language Arts
Engineering Takes Flight
Explore the flight characteristics of different materials while designing an aircraft.
Resources
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.
Learn about this year's Tech Challenge.
The Tech Academies
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.
Standards alignment
- Engineering Design
- Science and Engineering Practices
- Cross Cutting Concepts
- English Language Arts: Speaking and Listening
- English Language Arts: Language
- English Language Arts: Writing
