Phenomena: Solar Powered Aircraft
Since manned and unmanned aircraft CAN be powered by solar, how can we power small aircrafts mounted on table top mobiles?
Learning Goals:
- Students will be introduced to solar aircraft.
- Students will form and write questions about solar aircraft into their Engineering Notebooks setting the stage for future questions.
- Students will be introduced to a room sized solar mobile and add additional questions to their engineering notebook.
- Students will be introduced to the engineering design scenario.
Materials List
Handouts
- Student Engineering Notebooks
Important Links
Next Generation Science Standards
Next Generation Science Standards
| Performance Expectation | How is this Assessed? |
| MS-PS3-5 Construct, use, and present arguments to support the claim that when the kinetic energy of an object changes, energy is transferred to or from the object. | Students will use various solar panels and learn about solar energy transfer in order to power the motors on their solar plane. Students record this knowledge and use it for their final engineering design project. |