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| Grade Six Online Interactives by Topic | |
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| | Air and Aerodynamics | | Flight | | Sky Science | | Evidence and Investigation | | Trees and Forests | |
 | Flight |
 | 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/ |
| 100 Years of Flight in Canada - 100 Years of Flight in Canada is a 2Learn.ca Special Edition that celebrates Canada's rich aviation history. Students will find many online interactive activities that connect with the science concepts of Flight. http://www.2learn.ca/mapset/specialedition/canflight100/canflight100.asp |
| 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 |
