First – Start with Ice breaker game
Name, one interesting thing about you, and favorite animal.
Go into whole group – discuss questions
Introduce lesson + show how to make airplane
Split into two groups – 1. discuss questions 2. demonstrate plane model again 3. Then start
zones 4. Go to Pictograph 5. Go back to small group table and discuss new airplane model
questions 6. Have them put their objects on their place 7. Fly new planes 8. Go to
pictograph 9. Go to Table and wait for other group and then go to whole group 8. Whole
group – discuss questions
Questions for Whole group
• Who knows what an airplane is?
• Who has been on an airplane before?
• What do airplanes do? They travel, right?
• Have you ever wondered how paper airplanes fly?
-The way that planes fly through the air is called aerodynamics. As planes fly they push
air. When you launch a paper airplane, your throw helps the movement that starts the
flying after that your plane will glide with air under its wings until it lands.
• Does anyone know what a pictograph is? -a way of showing data using images.
• Has anyone made or used a paper airplane before?
Today, we will be creating our own paper airplanes. Then we will be able to see how far
they travel. What do you think will happen when we launch our airplanes? Will they travel
far? We will be testing our paper airplanes out and collecting data. We will be working in
