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The Sky's the Limit! with Math and Science.
Rev. ed. Stan Adair, Bill Barker, Dennis Ivans, and others. Activities Integrating Mathematics and Science (AIMS) series. Fresno, Calif.: AIMS Education Foundation, 1994.

Recommended grade level: 6-8.
The Sky's the Limit! with Math and Science offers 23 classroom activities on the science of aerodynamics. Among the activities, students make and use a clinometer to find the heights of various objects. They also construct various symmetric shapes and explore their flight properties, investigate the behavior of a paper rotor, construct various parachutes and calculate their rates of descent, use toy water rockets to explore the effects of variables on thrust, and discover how the design of a paper airplane affects how long it will stay in the air. In other activities, students manipulate design features of paper airplanes so the airplanes can perform certain stunts, and they explore the flight characteristics of 3 simple paper kites.

Each activity includes procedures, discussion questions, extensions, and reproducible student record sheets or handouts. Connections to standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and to Project 2061 Benchmarks are also listed.

Price: Teacher's guide (ISBN 1-881431-44-4), $16.95.
Publisher/supplier: AIMS Education Foundation.
Materials: Available locally, or from commercial suppliers.

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Use these listings to find related entries.
Aerodynamics,
  • Physical Sciences: Bubble-ology, ~ Flights of Imagination: An Introduction to Aerodynamics, Transportation.
    Clinometer,
  • Earth Sciences: Finding Your Way: Navigation Activities from the Exploratorium,
  • Multi & Applied Sciences: Height-O-Meters.
    Kites,
  • Physical Sciences: Flight Lab, ~ Flights of Imagination: An Introduction to Aerodynamics, ~ Integrating Aerospace Science into the Curriculum: K-12,
    Paper airplanes,
  • Physical Sciences: Exploring Physical Science, Transportation.
    Parachutes,
  • Physical Sciences: Flight Lab,
    Thrust,
  • Physical Sciences: Flight Lab,
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