Objectives 1: Build and Fly a paper plane
Objective 2: Changing the Flying direction of a paper plane
It is relatively easy to build paper planes and to modify their shape to change the direction they take.
Students will build these planes and then compare the direction they take with the real equipment of planes
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How do planes change directions?
Ask the students to summarise the previous session about the directions taken by the planes.
Ask the students how they think that planes change direction?
Prepare a paper plane according to the drawing above starting from an A4 sheet of paper.
Fly your paper plane and observe it.
Fold your paper plane according to the drawing below.
Which direction do you think your plane will take?
Fly your paper plane and observe it.
Fold your paper plane according to the drawing below.
Which direction do you think your plane will take?
Fly your paper plane and observe it.
Fold your paper plane according to the drawing below.
Which direction do you think your plane will take?
Fly your paper plane and observe it.
Take the picture of a real plane and compare the different parts to the action we just saw.
With a simple experiment using a paper plane it is possible to understand the functionality of the different moving parts on a plane.
You also may use this model of paper plane.