{"id":4905,"date":"2025-11-07T09:48:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/?p=4905"},"modified":"2025-11-07T09:48:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:48:20","slug":"aeronautical-engineering-in-grade-4-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/2025\/11\/07\/aeronautical-engineering-in-grade-4-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Aeronautical Engineering&#8230; in Grade 4\/5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4906 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/files\/2025\/11\/acbbe11fa85ca5f95086a1f5b97432a5-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/files\/2025\/11\/acbbe11fa85ca5f95086a1f5b97432a5-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/files\/2025\/11\/acbbe11fa85ca5f95086a1f5b97432a5.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Last week Division 7 embarked on a journey in ADST (Applied Design Skills and Technology) to design a first-class paper airplane.\u00a0 Ms. Rudolph, in the library, guided students in a lesson about the four forces of flight: drag, lift, gravity, and thrust.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4908 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/files\/2025\/11\/paperair2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/files\/2025\/11\/paperair2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/files\/2025\/11\/paperair2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Students explored different designs through the links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foldnfly.com\/#\/1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-1\">Fold &#8216;n&#8217; Fly<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3KqjRPV9_PY&amp;list=PLibNZv5Zd0dzYVREty0xm56nsJU99nVQ8&amp;index=3\">World Record Holder Paper Airplane<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"line-height: 21.12px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4907 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/files\/2025\/11\/paperair1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/files\/2025\/11\/paperair1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/files\/2025\/11\/paperair1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h5>\n<p>On our second day, students were tasked with applying what they learned from the first day to create their own designs.\u00a0Interestingly, students really wanted to use the iPads again to watch the instructions. It was a stretch for them to have the confidence to experiment with design elements on their own. Tasks like this encourage children to rely on their own thinking and think critically through mistakes, figuring out other approaches as they work through the design cycle.<\/p>\n<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4910 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/files\/2025\/11\/paperair4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/files\/2025\/11\/paperair4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/files\/2025\/11\/paperair4.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 1.1em;\">Steps:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li>Learn concepts.<\/li>\n<li>Look at examples and explore design elements used by others.<\/li>\n<li>Apply concepts to develop own designs.<\/li>\n<li>Test, revise, test again.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Division 7 embarked on a journey in ADST (Applied Design Skills and Technology) to design a first-class paper airplane.\u00a0 Ms. Rudolph, in the library, guided students in a lesson about the four forces of flight: drag, lift, gravity, and thrust. &nbsp; Students explored different designs through the links: Fold &#8216;n&#8217; Fly World Record [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7091,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7091"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4905"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4918,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions\/4918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}