A NASA Langley Learning Technologies Project Off to a Flying Start , a NASA Langley Learning Technologies Project, is a K-4 online telecommunications project that uses worldwide collaboration and aeronautics to provide learning opportunities to students in math and science. The length of project participation is determined by the classroom teacher. This module teaches students the parts of an airplane, as well as how and why airplanes fly.
Introductory information provided is age and grade-level appropriate.
Students predict flight distance, fly the planes, collect and record data, graph data, and share data with other classes that are also participating in the project. Students investigate and describe their own results, as well as those from other participating schools. Experimental Design Students use their knowledge of parts of an airplane and how planes fly to design and construct their own planes. Students compete in a flying contest with their new planes. They collect data, graph data, and share data with the project.