1. CITY SCIENCE STARS: On the Wing

2. HOW DO ANIMALS
AND PLANES FLY?

3. THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF WINGS
LIFT
ISAAC NEWTON
DANIEL BERNOULLI

4. WING WARS
FALCON F.C.
CONDOR UNITED VS

5. FALCON F.C. Swooping and divebombing Aerial raptors
Can dive at over 200 mph!

6. CONDOR UNITED Gliding and soaring Carrion eaters
Flies for hours without flapping

8. THE FLIGHT EXPERIMENT Make a hypothesis Think about how you will throw
Measure these using equipment:
…Time in the air (seconds)
…Distance flown (metres)
For this experiment, I’d like you to think as a team which paper plane you think will spend longest in the air, which will fly the furthest and which will be the fastest.
You’ll then each throw your planes down the runway. Please throw them gently, if you throw them too hard they tend to do flips or crash to the ground. Plus we don’t want to hurt anyone!
Tom will record the time they were airborne, and you can check how far your plane flew. From this, we can estimate the speed your plane was flying at.
Once we’ve collected this information, we will see if you’re hypotheses were right!
Flight tips
Try to make sure that the condor planes have their wings tilted up like a V, as this will prevent them from flipping over in the air.

9. CALCULATING SPEED FROM DISTANCE AND TIME
SxT D S T
T =
D/S
S =
D/T
For this experiment, I’d like you to think as a team which paper plane you think will spend longest in the air, which will fly the furthest and which will be the fastest.
You’ll then each throw your planes down the runway. Please throw them gently, if you throw them too hard they tend to do flips or crash to the ground. Plus we don’t want to hurt anyone!
We will record the time they were airborne, and you can check how far your plane flew. From this, we can estimate the speed your plane was flying at.
Once we’ve collected this information, we will see if you’re hypotheses were right!
Children are not required to know that speed is a measure of distance travelled in a given time but older/more able children will be able to use the data collected to make these calculations. Some children will require additional support and should be reassured that this is a higher-level understanding. x

10. OUR RESULTS!
Point out to children that the scale is not written on the axis as would usually be expected at KS2 because it is being used to show and compare all the data collected in one diagram.

11. OUR CONCLUSIONS Which wing shape is better for distance?
Which wing shape is better for airtime?
How else could we improve our designs?

12. Primary Science Specialist sarah.eames@pstt.org.uk
Alex Evans
LCFC STEM Coach
Sarah Eames
Primary Science Specialist