Science - Gr. 6 Online Interactives
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 | PBS: Microraptor - Wind Tunnel Test - The microraptor was discovered in China in 2000. Scientists from around the world met to discover how this raptor flew. "In this interactive based on their findings, conduct your own virtual wind-tunnel experiment and see for yourself how this pint-sized dinosaur likely glided." [site]  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/microraptor/lift-flash.html | ||
| A Matter of Life and Death - A Matter of Life and Death is an interactive game that looks at how an airplane was used to prevent a 1929 diptheria epidemic in Little Red River, Alberta. This activity is based on the real-life journey of Wop May and Vic Horner. http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/explore/exhibitions/brushstrokes/game.php?lang=e | ||
| The Thrill of Flight - This is an interactive site that takes students through through a variety of hangers which contain information and activities about flight. http://www.education.gov.ab.ca/ltb/resource/ | ||
| Smart Parts - Drag and drop parts onto this plane - when completed you will know all the parts and what they are for.
http://www.avkids.com/hangar/smartparts/ | ||
| Science Fun with Airplanes - Learn about air and flight with the interactive descriptions/experiments of how flight works, and learn the parts of the airplane. http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~flight/homepage.html | ||
| The 1903 Wright Flyer - "Explore an interactive 3-D model of the Wright Flyer to reveal the remarkable innovations of the first successful airplane" (site introduction). http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/wright/explore/explore.html | ||
| First Flight - Fly the Wright Brothers plane with this simulation. Read the instructions carefully first!
http://firstflight.open.ac.uk/takeoff04.html | ||
| PBS: Getting Airborne - "In this pair of interactive features, find out how air moving over and under a wing manages to lift a plane into the sky. Also, compare modern airfoil shapes to see, for example, what makes one shape ideal for a fighter jet and another for a cargo plane." [site introduction] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wright/airb-flash.html | ||
| PBS: Flying Firsts - View this PBS timeline outlining the milestones in human flight. http://www.pbs.org/saf/1109/features/flying.htm | ||
| How Do Things Fly? - Explore how things fly - everything from a dragonfly to a hot air balloon.
http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/aboutus/wonder_of_flight/how_things.html | ||
| Variables (Fossweb) - Change the variables to shoot this cannon into the air.
http://www.fossweb.com/modules3-6/Variables/index.html | ||
| NASA: Shoot a Cannonball into Orbit - Learn about orbits and gravity with this activity.
http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/en/kids/orbits1.shtml | ||
| Forces of Flight - Read the explanations and take the quizzes as you learn about forces of flight.
http://www.planemath.com/activities/pmenterprises/forces/forces1.html | ||
