Field Trip - Flight School

Suggested Grades: 4, 5, & 6

Suggested Time: 5.5 hours + 30min lunch break

 Class of: 25 students (email for pricing of larger groups)

Students will learn and explore:

- What are Bernoulli's Principles?

- What is high and low air pressure?

- How do planes fly and steer in the sky?

- Explore different kinds of aeronautical vehicles

Activities will include:

- Various experiments and challenges to explore high and low air pressure

- Paper airplane builds - Learning how air flows over and under an airplane, and how fins and flaps work.

- Rubber Band Airplane - Comparing gliders and powered flight, and how each are able to staying in the sky.

- Experience aeronautical examples of hot air balloons and rockets.

- Build and play with basic drones and paper helicopters.