Paper Planes

Grades P-6

Creating paper planes is enjoyable and it can also help children to:

• discover engineering design and problem solving methods
• discover and understand the forces of flight
• apply scientific processes and testing to improve flight

​Often viewed as just child’s play, the humble Paper Plane is the perfect vehicle to teach basic engineering and physics principles in a practical, challenging and fun way. 

Children have a great deal of fun challenging themselves and their friends to find the paper plane design that will fly the furthest.  Along the way they naturally learn to modify their design to test out what they have learnt about the principles of flight - lift, thrust, drag and yaw.

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