3rd Grade

Module 1:  Stability and Motion:  The Science of Flight

Students have been busy learning about the forces that act on objects that fly.  They participated in centers that helped them explore the forces of lift, weight, thrust and drag.  They built a 'teeter totter' to investigate balanced and unbalanced forces.  They have built a glider choosing from a variety of wing and horizontal stabilizer styles.  They put their gliders through several test fights to determine which design could deliver the most 'cargo' to a fictional remote village.

Students building and testing gliders that can carry binder clips (cargo) to a remote village.

             Forces of Flight Experiments.    (Lift, Weight, Drag and Thrust)

Module 2:  Stability and Motion:  Forces and Interactions

Students will continue to investigate different forces such as gravity and friction. They will build and test different types of simple machines.  They will also be exposed to magnets and how they work.  Their final project will be to use the engineering design process to design and build a compound machine that can rescue a fictional tiger that has fallen into the moat at a zoo.

                              Using compound machines to rescue a trapped tiger.