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Principles of Flight for Level 4

These lesson plans were developed by Tony Twinning from Marlborough Primary School in Heathmont VIC working with David Moore, a Science/Engineering student from Monash University.

Tony and David produced a 5 lesson unit of work on Flight which introduces the topic through a series of hands-on workshops where students put the principles of flight into practice by building a number of flying objects, culminating in the launching of their own rockets.

Basic Flight (pdf 1.1mb)
Propulsion (pdf 552kb)
Lift (pdf 5.1mb)
Propulsion Gives Lift (pdf 100kb)
Rockets (pdf 948kb)

Marlborough Primary School feedback

At Marlborough PS David (3rd year Engineering) taught gifted students about astrophysics.

rocket thu

Marlborough completed their placement
with the launching of the students
homemade rockets. Each child launched
their own rockets using a safety switch device to
ensure distance between the rocket and launcher. rocket smoke

rocket smoke

Grade 4 student Comment:
"My rocket was awesome.
It went about 30 metres
into the air. The
ROCKETS WERE
THE BEST"

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