Math/Science: Flight Adventure Deck 2000-2001
Math/Science: Flight Adventure Deck
60 Points per Year
7/12
2-408-029
General Objective
The purpose of this component is to increase the knowledge and skills of the participants in the field of flight. Upon successful completion of the component, all participants will have a basic knowledge of the history of flight, atmosphere and gravity, buoyancy, aerodynamics and power plants as they relate to flight.
Specific Objectives
Upon completion of this component, participants will be able to:
1. Identify the four forces of flight.
2. Identify the four forces on a plane - lift, drag, thrust, and weight.
3. Explain and demonstrate Bernoulli’s principle.
4. Define weight and mass.
5. Discuss and demonstrate the differences between weight and mass.
6. Explain and demonstrate Newton’s first, second, and third laws of motion.
7. Explain and demonstrate acceleration due to gravity.
8. Explain and demonstrate the fact that air is matter.
9. Identify the major parts of an aircraft (envelope, gondola, burner, fuselage, wing, horizontal stabilizer, vertical stabilizer,
propeller or jet intake and tail pipe, cockpit, flaps, ailerons, rudder, elevators, trim tabs, landing gear).
10. Identify the parts of an airfoil - leading and trailing edge, Chord and wing chamber.
11. Explain how the flaps, ailerons, rudder, and elevators affect the direction of an aircraft.
12. Explain the terms: starboard, port, forward, aft, roll, pitch, and yaw as they are used in flight.
13. Construct a hot air balloon, fly it and use it to demonstrate buoyancy.
14. Construct a model plane, fly it and use it to demonstrate how controlling surfaces affect flight.
15. Construct a balloon jet model, fly it and use it to demonstrate Newton’s Laws.
16. Construct a rubber band powered model plane, fly it and use it to demonstrate how controlling surfaces affect flight.
17. Explain buoyancy and how it relates to lighter than air flight.
18. Identify the basic structures of reciprocating engines and how they function.
19. Identify the basic structures of turbine engines and how they function.
20. Demonstrate the ability to log on to the Internet and research a topic on flight.
21. Identify important events and aircraft during the era of early flight (1903-1939).
22. Identify important events and aircraft during World War II and the Korean War (1939-1953).
23. Identify important events and aircraft during the era of modern flight (1953-present).
24. Identify several careers in aviation.
25. Identify four factors that affect a pilot’s ability to fly.
26. List the main physiological effects that result from temperature, oxygen concentration, pressure, and
gravitational or acceleration forces.
27. Discuss the differences between a blackout and redout as they relate to flight and positive and negative “g”
forces.
28. Discuss the differences between positive and negative “g” forces.
29. Explain the terms: angle of elevation, anthropometry, aspect ratio, biosphere, camber ratio, confidence,
glide ratio, inclinometer, maximum camber, physiology and troposphere.
Description of Activities
Activities held under this component will be designed to accomplish the specific objectives outlined above. They may include, but will not be limited to such things as, lectures, discussions, demonstrations, observations, and hands-on activities.
Evaluation of Participants
Evaluation of the specific objectives will be determined by the activity leader or designee through analysis of student performance data affected by training activities, portfolios maintained by the training participant, documented observation by administrators, rubrics developed for special area curriculum, teacher-provided test results/grade books, or curriculum alignment data.
Evaluation of Activity
An online evaluation for this activity will be conducted through the Santa Rosa Professional Growth System.