Audience
Educators, Students
Grade Levels
Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12, Informal Education
Subject
Careers, Physical Science, Flight and Aeronautics
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities, Videos
NASA Role Model: Robert “Red” Jensen
NASA Center: Armstrong Flight Research Center
Topic: Advanced Air Mobility
Original Air Date: May 26, 2021
Tune in to find more about what sUAS chief Pilot “Red” Jensen is building at the Model Lab at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center. Also, you do not want to miss out why Artificial Intelligence is so important to Advanced Air Mobility.
STEM Short Activity: 3 … 2 … 1 … Takeoff! Create Your Very Own X-Plane
Objective: Construct small paper X-planes and fly them by producing their own thrust, by blowing air through a drinking straw, to examine Newton’s third law of motion. And, then improve the design.
Duration: 45 minutes
Materials Needed: Paper plane template, clear tape, scissors, ruler, tape measure, pencil, drinking straw
Difficulty: Easy
Next Generation Science Standards: 3-PS2-2, 5-PS2-1, MS-PS2-1, MS-PS2-2
“NASA STEM Stars” is a webchat series. Each chat introduces a science, technology, engineering or math career, addresses a STEM topic and highlights a NASA mission. The chat includes a STEM activity that students can do at home. After the interviews, experts answer students’ questions.