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Engineering Design: Forces and Motion—The Great Boomerang
Challenge
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NASA Explorer Schools invites you to learn how to incorporate the excitement of boomerangs into your classes. During this web seminar you will be introduced to the engineering design challenge “The Great Boomerang Challenge.” This lesson uses knowledge about forces and motion and the engineering design process to solve a problem. The lesson provides many opportunities for incorporating national mathematics, science, and technology learning standards into your curriculum.
Register today!
During the web seminar you will get a refresher on forces and motion and learn how they are related to the physics of a boomerang. You will learn strategies for guiding students through the engineering process for designing, building, and testing a boomerang. You also will collaborate with other participants on possible modifications for your grade level.
The web seminar includes information about incorporating unique student extension activities into your classroom, including a free Java computer simulation illustrating the actual flow around an airfoil that solves the correct flow equation. You will also learn about FoilSim interactive software, which determines the airflow around various shapes of airfoils and calculates the lift of the airfoils, allowing students to learn the factors that influence lift.
Details
Title: Engineering Design: Forces and Motion—The Great Boomerang Challenge
Target grades: 9-12
Date: Thursday, June 20, 2013
Time: 6:30-8:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Note: New users should log in at 6:15 p.m. Eastern time for an introduction to NSTA web seminars.
Presenter: Rudo Kashiri
Registration
Register today
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.
See when other
NASA Explorer Schools Web Seminars are Scheduled.
For more information contact webseminars@nsta.org
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