Aerospace Engineering: 

Up, Up & Away!

Mondays, Apr 20 Jun 8 | Grades 5 - 7 | 3:15-4:00 pm

During the Aerospace Engineering classes, students use the Engineering Design Process to design, create, test, and refine a variety of flying machines. They construct a shock absorbing system designed to protect two marshmallow astronauts in a lunar vehicle, create their own air-powered rockets, and assemble a model blimp that actually takes flight!




Monday, 3:15PM-4:00PM (April 20, 2020)Straw Rockets

Students will have the ability to design their own pneumatically driven rocket and the fins that stabilize the flight of the rocket. Lessons learned in this activity will be further developed in Bottle Rockets, including how launch angles, mass, and fin design all have an effect on total flight distance.


Monday, 3:15PM-4:00PM (April 27, 2020)Parachutes

Students will engineer a functional parachute for a test jumper that must descend gracefully after being dropped from a tall height. After the testing phase, which is an important part of the Engineering Design Process, students will be able to improve upon their design.


Monday, 3:15PM-4:00PM (May 4, 2020)Blimp Blitz

In this lesson, students explore and apply the principals of buoyancy to create a neutrally buoyant blimp that uses the power of air currents to travel across the room.


Monday, 3:15PM-4:00PM (May 11, 2020)Lunar Lander

Students will learn about the importance of weight distribution in aircraft design. Students will build their own custom “Lunar Lander” to protect their space cadet marshmallows from being ejected from their space craft.


Monday, 3:15PM-4:00PM (May 18, 2020)Bottle Rockets

Students will learn how simple air pressure can jettison a rocket more than one hundred feet into the air. Students will get the chance to build a large model rocket that is capable of launching, using pressurized water and air.


Monday, 3:15PM-4:00PM (June 1, 2020)Bottle Rockets (cont'd)


Monday, 3:15PM-4:00PM (June 8, 2020)Airplanes

Students will get a firsthand look at the basic mechanics of flight by constructing paper airplanes and testing the different components that allow it to remain airborne. The terminology discussed in this lesson will play in an important role in later lessons


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  • Drum Intermediate School
  • 4909 79th Ave W., University Place, WA, 98467 US

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