Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades 5-8
Subject
Mathematics, Physical Science, Technology, Measurement and Data Analysis, Flight and Aeronautics, Forces and Motion, Robotics
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities
Students work as a team and use the engineering design process to design and build a propeller car.
Students will:
- Apply the engineering design process to design, build, test and improve a propeller car.
- Explain how Newton’s third law of motion plays a role in moving vehicles with propellers.
- Work as a team and communicate effectively.
- Reflect on the design process and discuss it as a group.
Next Generation Science Standards: MS-ETS1-1, MS-PS2-2, PS2.A
Common Core State Standards: MP5, MP6
Activity One: Propeller Design Challenge
This lesson plan is part of the “Unmanned Aircraft Systems Educator Guide.”