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School workshop plan: "High flyers, Building a glider with everyday materials"

  • December 2014
  • Education & learning
  • Topics in science
  • Material for workshops and exhibitions

Aimed at 9-12 year old students.

Developed as part of the ENGINEER project (2011-2014).

In this unit pupils learn about flight and aeronautical engineering. Over the course of four sessions they discover more about the properties of materials, the forces involved in flight as well as getting the chance to build, test and evaluate their own gliders.

Versions in other languages and editable version are available here.

Public resource

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Keywords

  • engineering
  • Workshop
  • aeronautics
  • engineer

Project

ENGINEER

ENGINEER supported the widespread adoption in Europe of innovative methods of science teaching and the introduction of engineering in schools. In November 2014, Engineer won a Scientix Award for the category "STEM teaching materials addressed to teachers".