Students explore Bernoulli's Principle and relate what they have learned to the principles of flight. The lesson involves an opening discussion, three student activities, a whole class demonstration, and a closing discussion. This lesson is part of a larger website related to the PBS Chasing the Sun program. Additional features of the site include an aviation timeline, planes, innovators, companies, related web links, and additional resources. The lesson could be extended to include features such as the timeline and various innovators. A well designed lesson using these features would allow educators to incorporate benchmarks and grade level indicators in the Scientific Ways of Knowing and Science and Technology standards. (author/ts)

A number of aviation programs could use information within this resource to demonstrate some of Bernoulli's Principles. Some of the demonstrations could be incorporated to into a teacher's lesson plans to show the different effects of Bernoulli's Principles as they apply to aviation fundamentals. Both analyzing the best designs and following construction directions relate directly to the areas of construction and manufacturing. After testing the effectiveness of their model in competition, students are also given the opportunity to perfect/modify their airplanes and compete a second time. Aviation students should find the airplane introduction clip, related concepts of Bernoulli's principle, and analysis of design effectiveness nicely correlate with this career cluster.