Kids Education Resources

[Graueradler]

Someone posted a few links awhile back for kids aeronautical education activities. I remember one really good one from NASA. I swear I bookmarked it but can't find it now. Haven't been successful with Google either. Nasa must have about a million websites. A lot of them have educational content but couldn't find the one I was looking for. If you remember posting such links, I'd appreciate it if you'd post them again. Trying to get prepared for our kids aero-camp at KRUE this June.

 

[gprellwitz]

Well, I had this:

If you get a chance to participate in one of these events, take it! Leslie and I did a 20-minute presentation on different types of aircraft and had the girls put together paper gliders using some of the patterns from NASA at http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/OEP/girl.../activity1.htm. They all seemed to get a kick out of it, and we also got to go into a bit of aircraft design, weight & balance issues, etc. Since the girls were all young, we obviously had to do it at a very basic level, but I think it was worthwhile. I just wish we had a little more time with each group to answer more questions and allow them to experiment a little more!

 

[Graueradler]

Yeah, I can use that. We made lots of paper planes last year.

The link I remember had sort of a rubber band slingshot device to demonstrate newtons second and third laws. We plan to launch a couple of model rockets this year and need to talk about rocket propulsion.