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Engineering Design Challenge: Forces and Motion -- The Great Boomerang Challenge
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During the professional development Web seminar for educators, you will be introduced
to the Great Boomerang Design Challenge and find out how to incorporate this challenge
into your physical science classes. Find out how aerodynamics research has been
applied to boomerang design changes and increased boomerang performance, which led
to the creation of international boomerang flight competitions
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The web seminar also includes information about two unique extensions. In the first, students access a free computer simulation illustrating the airflow around an airfoil to determine the correct flow equation. A second extension uses an interactive simulation to determine the airflow around various shapes of airfoils.
The Great Boomerang Design Challenge is a lesson on forces and motion that guides students through the engineering design process. Students think and act like engineers and scientists as they follow the steps of the process to successfully complete a team challenge, which include design, build, test, and re-design a boomerang. Once the boomerang is built, students explain and demonstrate the different forces that affect flight. Students compare their observations to a boomerang flown in the microgravity environment on the International Space Station. The activity provides many opportunities for incorporating national mathematics, science, and technology learning standards into your curriculum.
Details
Title: Engineering Design Challenge: Forces and Motion -- The Great Boomerang Challenge
Target grades: 9-12
Dates: Monday, June 04, 2012, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Presenter:
Rudo Kashiri and Rachel Power
This web seminar is part of a series of electronic professional development experiences sponsored by the NASA Explorer Schools (NES) project. NASA Explorer Schools invests in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics educators to inspire and engage a whole generation of future scientists, engineers and technicians that NASA needs to continue our journey. NES gives educators of grades 4-12 free access to NASA’s people, missions, research, and facilities. We take the work out of searching through thousands of materials on the NASA website and provide a comprehensive set of teaching materials for dozens of STEM concepts. For additional information about the NASA Explorer Schools project, visit http://explorerschools.nasa.gov.
Registration
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to participate in this web seminar. Upon registering you will receive an e-mail
confirmation including information about the program and suggested links to visit
in preparation of the event. Additional information about the web seminar will be
e-mailed to you days before the program.
Each web seminar is a unique, stand-alone, program. Archives of the Web Seminars
and the presenters’ PowerPoint presentations will be available through the
links on this web page. Learn more about the
features
of the Web Seminar and read answers to
frequently asked
questions
from participants.
For more information contact webseminars@nsta.org
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