Name: Marcel Baynes
Grade/subject: Technology Education
School:
Francis C. Hammond Middle School
Unit Title/Description: Flight Technology Learning
Activity #2 (90min block)
email: [email protected]
Learning goal
1. Students will learn how the Wright Brothers
developed flight technology.
2. Students will analyze and construct paper airplanes
designed by engineers to learn the principals of
flight technology.
SOL
Number
DTE
8486.009
DTE
8486.019
DTE
Title of LOC item
Permanent URL
Telegram sent by the Wright
Brothers to their father on
December 17, 1903
Kitty Hawk, North
Carolina(1911)
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/progress/jb_pro
gress_flight_2_e.html
Wilbur and Orville Wright's
First Flight
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/progress/jb_pro
gress_flight_3_e.html
" Sir George Cayley's Aerial
Carriage,"
in Mechanics' Magazine,
April 8, 1843.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/wb0
036.jpg
Uccelli e Varie Altre
Materie.
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/es/nc/es_nc_kttyh
wk_1_e.html
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/wbdream.html
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/wb0
022.jpg
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/wbtimeline.html
Description of Classroom Use
1. Read aloud:
"For some years, I have been
afflicted with the belief that
flight is possible to man. My
disease has increased in
severity and I feel that it will
soon cost me an increased
amount of money if not my life."
2. Pair share discussion of
quote
3. Using a series of
photographs from the
“Dream of Flight “exhibit,
lead an interactive ( part
teachers lead and part
independent exploration
of the site) discussion of
TDI
8406.043
THE PROBLEM OF
MANNED FLIGHT
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/wb0
111s.jpg
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/wbdream.html
Timeline of Flight
Wilbur Wright Working in
Bicycle Shop
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/wbtimeline.html
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/wb0
046s.jpg
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/wbachieve.html
how the Wright Brother
exhibited the “Habits of
Mind” of an innovator.
Student record their responses
on the HOM worksheet.
Students experiment with paper
airplane designs
Students review HOM
worksheet, this time using it to
reflect on the HOM they
exhibited during the “lab”
experience.
The Habits of Mind of an Innovator
Name _______________________
Vision
Competition
Being able to visualize a future no one has imagined.
1.
Being able to identify what you can or could do better than
others are currently doing.
1.
2.
2.
3.
3.
Risk
Determination
Being able to overcome or accept the possibility of failure.
Being able to stay focused on a task, accepts limits, and use
resources wisely.
1.
1.
2.
2.
3.
3.
wers
Explain in your own words the terms
curiosity and creativity.
What do you notice in
this picture. What does
it reveal about the boy?
Confirm
Surprise
Explain how the artifact confirmed what
you already knew about this person.
1.
2.
3.
Explain why you were surprised to see
this artifact in a box about the
person.
1.
2.
3.
Question
Add
What you have about the person’s life
and/or the artifacts.
1.
2.
3.
Identify artifacts that could be added to
the box to improve the description
of this person’s life. Explain why the
item should be added on another
piece of paper.
1.
2.
3.
Curiosity+ Creativity=
Innovation
An Innovator brings about
new ideas, methods or
devices
The Habits of Mind of an Innovator
Vision
Competition
Being able to visualize a future no one has imagined.
1.
2.
3.
Being able to identify what you can or could do better than
others are currently doing.
1.
2.
3.
Risk
Determination
Being able to overcome or accept the possibility of failure.
1.
2.
3.
Being able to stay focused on a task, accepts limits, and
use resources wisely.
1.
2.
3.