Airplanes

I remember my first flight with an airplane when I was 7 years old. Grade 1 students who are also 7 years old use an airplane more often then they use a bus or tram. We all have our stories to tell about being on an airplane. I read students a story " the Glorious Flight" by Alice and Martin Provensen. This is a story of Louis Bleriot's flight across the English Channel demonstrating to the world that barriers of land and sea no longer exist for the airplane. Boys loved that story! What is happening with airplane wings when it flies up? We were trying to model airplane wings and try how the wings move when you blow air across the top of the paper or when you blow underneath the paper.The paper acts like the wing of an airplane. Making the air move faster across the top of the wing makes the plane go up. Making the air move faster across the bottom of the wing makes the plane go down. Happy flying!