Reflection on our flight research task

Fabulous thinking by the students of Room 18!

This was the shared reflection about the science research.

This was the first draft of success criteria we might use for the next science research task.

This was the shared reflection about the static image the students prepared to display their research.

Science Roadshow

Science Roadshow on PhotoPeach

Don't feed bread to ducks

 

 Read more at why bread is bad for wild waterfowl.

Glossary:

Malnutrition: the unhealthy condition that results from not eating enough food or not eating enough healthy food : poor nutrition

Rodents: rats and mice

Bacteria: tiny organisms (creatures) that live everywhere, including soil, water, organic matter, and in the bodies of animals. Many are good for you, but some cause diseases.

Angel wings: is a wing deformity, also known as slipped wing, commonly found in ducks and geese where the last joint of the wing is twisted outward. The leading cause of Angel wing is high levels of protein in the diets of growing waterfowl. Most Angel wings in waterfowl occur at parks where the public can feed ducks and geese items like bread, which are high in protein and are not a proper diet for these animals. This high energy, unlimited feed, makes young waterfowl grow too fast and their wing weight outgrows the strength of the wing to support it. This causes the twisting.

Flight research sites

The task. You will create a poster showing how you have been thinking like a scientist and doing research.

1. Your poster will answer a question.
2. Your answer will explain how or why something happens or instruct someone in how to carry out a fair test.
3. The information will focus on the science. It won't just say what happens, it will explain the science of why or how that thing happens.
4. All questions must be about flight.

Here are some examples of questions you could use.

1. How do planes stay in the air?
2. How do feathers help birds fly?
3. How do aerodynamics work?
4. How do helicopters fly?
5. How can heavy birds take off and fly?
6. How do wings work?
  
Always check your information is focused on answering the question and the question is about flight. 

For example: the question "What are feathers for?" has lots of answers that are not to do with flight.

Level 1 to 2 thinking might say what is happening, but mention very little science.
Level 3 thinking will include some science.
Level 4 thinking will mention a lot of science and give clear examples to show you understand.  

Presentation
Check out the Static images  information here. 

If you have information to bring from home, either email it to me at dbird@maeroa.school.nz or bring it on a memory stick.

To answer your questions try these links

www.howstuffworks.com

Feathers and flight
How birds fly interactive post

How do birds fly?

How do birds fly?
How do birds fly?

Aerodynamics

Aerodynamics of flight

Aerodynamics NASA site


Why do migrating birds fly in a V formation?

Roll, pitch, yaw

Controlling a plane

or look up images of flight and then visit the sites for more information

or do a search using your question. Check the sites that come up and see if they will be readable enough for you to understand.

Either take notes or copy information into a word document and save it. Rewrite the information in your own words. You will need to use some of the technical language; just explain it in a way that shows you understand. If you quote from a site, use " " around the exact words you use to show they are not your words.

Include the url of the website or name of the book you have used as a reference. 

Copying someone else's words and  pretending you wrote them is called plagiarism. It's stealing and cheating and it's against the law. Please don't do that.  

Use pictures to SHOW how things work. A poster full of words can be overwhelming. 

Choose the information you use carefully (does it actually answer the question?) and show details with pictures and diagrams whenever possible.

Flight pictures to give you ideas to research

Flight

What is flight? Flight is controlled movement through the air.

Flight is the actual process of flying. Many things can become airborne but are they actually flying and under control?

 

The forces of flight