Flighter+than+Air


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|| Use this link to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and use the hyperlinks on the left hand side to find out what special adaptations birds have that allow them to fly. Present your findings as a labelled diagram. || || Look at the video on this site from Canadian museum of nature and use a labelled diagram, or a model and video your explanation, to explain one aspect of bird flight || || Is there a bird you are interested in finding out more about for your report writing and poster? Use this link and use your note taking skills to record information from text, images and video. || || What do you know about feathers? View this short youtube clip and then make a mindmap about feathers. || Use this site and design a 'fair' test to compare two paper planes. || Use one of the links from the Cornell Lab Bird Biology site and research in depth one aspect of birds e.g. feathers. Use the information to create a poster. You must have a title, labelled diagram and at least three paragraphs or sections. Make sure each section has a frame. || || What are feathers? What are they made of? Why do birds have them? What is some of the specific vocabulary associated with feathers? Skim read the information on this site, take notes and then use a labelled diagram of a bird to show what you learnt. || || DOGO news has some great articles about birds and their antics. Use this link to build a presentation about a bird, or bird antics. Your presentation must include an oral aspect, humour and a visual. || Use this interactive link from the Guardian to develop a report on commercial air travel. Include an introduction to the topic, an infographic, a quote, and points for and against commercial air travel. Also include your predictions for the future. || What are some of the ways that a bird's wings allow it to fly? Watch this video of macaws and then create a teaching aid to model two things you have found out. || || What do you know about birds? Select one of the following areas and prepare a short oral/visual presentation about any one of: 0 to 12 min- birds interaction with people; 12 - 18 min- peregrine falcons; 18 - 27 hummingbirds; 27 - 33 pigeons; 33 - 38 barn owl. || Select a 'wondering' or question you have after looking at the hyperlinks and follow an area of interest. You can choose how you want to present your learning. || Who, or what, is E7? What is remarkable about E7 and others of its kind? Click [|here] for an alternative version of the above information. || || Watch the video to make your own storm-petrel paper plane. WARNING: advanced origami! || || What is special about the structure of birds that allows them to fly? View one of these links and then draw a labelled diagram to compare the structure of a human's anatomy to that of a bird (only the bones and muscles mentioned for flight. ||
 * FLIGHT || BIRDS & FLIGHT  ||
 * How do things fly? Explore this link to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and select one aspect to learn about. You will need to have a key question, fact file, diagram and demonstration or investigation. Your final presentation will include an A3 poster with a 3D visual.
 * After viewing this presentation by James Smith about birds and flight, select any three slides and paraphrase them, adding a visual or demonstration to elaborate on a point.
 * Scroll down the page on this NASA site and collect information to explain the terms: pitch, roll and yaw. Then describe how a pilot controls these variables. (diagrams may help your explanation)
 * What do you know about the structure of a feather? Are all feathers of the same construction? View this clip and then make a display of at least three different types of feathers- explaining the different parts using correct vocabulary.
 * How many different designs of paper plane can you make? What are the best materials? What is the best design? What is the best technique for getting 'flight'?
 * How do you turn a basic paper plane into a stunt plane? View this video and conduct an investigation to find out. Write it up as a POE investigation (Predict, Observe, Explain)
 * What is the 'magnus' effect? What are some of its uses? Follow this explanation and use it to demonstrate the magnus effect. Write this up as a flow chart. Check with your teacher and you may be able to use a camera to show the stages. Explain what is happening in terms of flight.
 * What do you know about the history of commercial aviation? What would a graph showing the popularity of air travel look like? What is the cost to the planet?
 * This NASA link has information, interactives, presentations and activities about flight, and especially the history of flight. Have a quick surf through the site, slurp from a section you are interested in, then write a brief summary about what you found interesting.
 * This weebly site by S C Dolinski has links to several aspects of flight: properties of air, achieving flight, animals & flight, history of flight
 * Do you have an interest in another aspect of flight? Try this webquest and use one of the links to pursue an area of interest. Negotiate with your teacher as to how you are going to show what you have learned.
 * Use the DOGO news site and find an interesting article on flight. Your presentation must include a model and be done in collaboration with another person. List at least five words associated with flight concepts.