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Robin
Whirlybird Rotorcraft Explorations Educator
Guide |
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Exploration
1:
What is a Model?
(1.4 MB)
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Students
investigate the difference between toys, miniature replicas and scientific
models. They learn that scientists and engineers use scientific models to
understand how things work. |
Exploration
2:
How Do Rotorcraft Fly?
(756 KB)
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Students
choose a model and use it to explore rotorcraft flight. They use a “fair
test” and conclude that a spinning rotor is required for a rotorcraft
to fly. |
Exploration
3:
How Do Rotors Make Lift?
(1
MB) |
Students
learn that air takes up space and that a spinning rotor affects the air
and generates lift for rotorcraft. |
Exploration
4:
Rotorcraft Flight
(704
KB) |
Students
use appropriate terminology to describe the various stages of flight and
discover that the lift force changes with the amount of air moved by the
rotor blades. |
Exploration
5:
Rotor Blade Shape and Flight
(740
KB) |
Students
investigate how a change in the shape of rotor blades affects the amount
of lift they generate. |
Exploration
6:
Long and Short Rotor Blades
(732
KB) |
Students
investigate how a rotor blade’s length affects the amount of lift
it generates. |
Exploration
7:
Rotor Blade Weight and Flight
(740
KB) |
Students
investigate how a rotor blades’ weight affects its ability to generate
lift. |
Exploration
8:
The Rotorcraft Challenge
(744
KB) |
Students
work in teams and use their knowledge of rotorcraft flight, models, and
“fair tests” to design a rotorcraft model that will carry an
unsharpened pencil for at least three seconds. |
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