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This lesson introduces students to the art of designing an airplane through paper airplane constructions. The goal is that students will learn important aircraft design considerations and how engineers must iterate their designs to achieve success. Students first follow several basic paper airplane models, after which they will then design their own paper airplane. They will also learn how engineers make models to test ideas and designs.

The process of iterative design helps an engineer learn from the mistakes of early designs. When designing an airplane, engineers often build small-scale models of the airplane to test how it will fly without building a large and expensive full-size aircraft. And, they experiment with many different designs to find the best one. Design at least two different paper airplanes.Modify one of their designed airplanes in an attempt to improve its flight.Become familiar with parts of a paper airplane and how they relate to parts on a real airplane. 50TeachEngineering.orgTom RutkowskiAlex ConnerGeoffrey HillMalinda Schaefer ZarskeJanet YowellSchmidt, Norman. Super Paper Airplanes, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., 1996.Shulan, Michael. The Complete Paper Airplane Book, Watermill Press, 1979.http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Node/3483/PAAEnter/PAAMain/paamain.htmlS11416C8International_Technology_Education_Association-ITEA_STL_StandardsTechnologyStandard 18. Students will develop an understanding of and be able to select and use transportation technologies. 012S11424E4ColoradoScienceb. Use the particle model of matter to illustrate characteristics of different substances 66United StatesCopyright 2012 - Integrated Teaching and Learning Program, College of Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulderhttp://www.teachengineering.org/policy_ipp.phphttp://www.teachengineering.org/2010-08-236Teacher