Curriculum Connections
Dragonfly Copters new program initiative is designed to encourage excitement, curiosity, and an insatiable appetite for math & science learning. We have many types of program offerings, from simple fly-ins with group discussions, to actual lessons built from state mandated curriculum and gear per grade. We have attached areas of the state guidelines we can teach using the helicopter per grade or subject level. The level of programming is determined by individual consultation with each school. This program is open to all levels, K-12:
· With elementary school students we introduce ways math & science influence and support flight. Students get hands on, up close inspection of a fully operational helicopter and a question and answer session. Direct topics from the curriculum can include areas of math computation, introduction to weather, analysis of color, shape, data, and introduction to forces in motion.
· With middle school students we include the above activities and introduce experiential activities including concepts of weight and balance, Bernoulli’s Principal, and aeronautical weather concepts. Also possible state curriculum topics include heating and cooling of the earth, Newton's Law of Motion, specific weather phenomenon and the as they are applicable flying.
· With high school students we expound on the lessons above with higher level experiential activities demonstrating the physics of flying, science of weather and navigation and the math essentials in trip planning.
We have attached separate sections of the Alabama State Curriculum standards for Mathematics 2003 & 2009 areas we can cover, and Science areas we are qualified to address.
· With elementary school students we introduce ways math & science influence and support flight. Students get hands on, up close inspection of a fully operational helicopter and a question and answer session. Direct topics from the curriculum can include areas of math computation, introduction to weather, analysis of color, shape, data, and introduction to forces in motion.
· With middle school students we include the above activities and introduce experiential activities including concepts of weight and balance, Bernoulli’s Principal, and aeronautical weather concepts. Also possible state curriculum topics include heating and cooling of the earth, Newton's Law of Motion, specific weather phenomenon and the as they are applicable flying.
· With high school students we expound on the lessons above with higher level experiential activities demonstrating the physics of flying, science of weather and navigation and the math essentials in trip planning.
We have attached separate sections of the Alabama State Curriculum standards for Mathematics 2003 & 2009 areas we can cover, and Science areas we are qualified to address.
