All About Glider Airplanes - Experiment, Fun Facts, and Paper Airplanes

In this one-time class, students will learn the difference between falling and gliding and how this relates to airplanes.   We will learn about surface area and how the surface area helps things to glide.  We'll watch a couple short video clips of animals that glide through the air and also do a quick experiment, dropping two pieces of paper to the ground- one crumpled up and one not.  We will discuss if airplanes would start falling or gliding if their engine stopped working.  We'll learn about glider airplanes - how they take off and stay up in the air without an engine.  At the end of class, we will create glider airplanes together to demonstrate what we've learned.  It'll be a lot of fun! #academic

⭐️I prefer to keep students unmuted throughout class so that we are easily able to converse, however, there may be times where I will need to mute students due to background noise or other factors.