You’re going to do several experiments that change air pressure and mystify your kids. The goal is to set them thinking about how and why things fly (you’ll do this by learning about air pressure and Bernoulli’s law).

 

While you are playing with the experiments in the video, see if you can notice these important ideas:

  1. Air pressure is all around us.
  2. Air pushes downward and creates pressure on all things.
  3. Air pressure changes all the time.
  4. Higher pressure always pushes.
  5. The faster air travels over a surface, the less time it has to push down on that surface and create pressure. Fast moving air creates low pressure regions.
  6. The four fundamental forces on an airplane are lift, weight, thrust, and drag.

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2 Responses to “Introduction to Flying Machines”

  1. Oh no! I’ll have Tonya connect with you asap!

  2. Sissa0602 says:

    We are e science members but it looks like we dont have access to any of the the flight labs at all. I have the content of the getting started video, the materials list, and the game plan, but when I click on any of the labs at all it says I dont have access. we would like to get started on camp.
    thank you