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This lesson for Grades 5-8 explores how engineers use Bernoulli's Principle to design airplane wings that produce lift. It is the first of four lessons about the key forces in flight: lift, weight, thrust, and drag. The lesson includes objectives, warm-up questions, background information for teachers, assessment questions, classroom activity, and web-based reference material.
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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=11503">National Science Foundation. Teach Engineering: May the Force Be With You - Lift. Boulder: Integrated Teaching and Learning Program: Teach Engineering, August 23, 2010.</a>
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(Integrated Teaching and Learning Program: Teach Engineering, Boulder, 2004), WWW Document, (https://www.teachengineering.org/lessons/view/cub_airplanes_lesson02).
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Teach Engineering: May the Force Be With You - Lift (Integrated Teaching and Learning Program: Teach Engineering, Boulder, 2004), <https://www.teachengineering.org/lessons/view/cub_airplanes_lesson02>.
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Teach Engineering: May the Force Be With You - Lift. (2010, August 23). Retrieved May 1, 2025, from Integrated Teaching and Learning Program: Teach Engineering: https://www.teachengineering.org/lessons/view/cub_airplanes_lesson02
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National Science Foundation. Teach Engineering: May the Force Be With You - Lift. Boulder: Integrated Teaching and Learning Program: Teach Engineering, August 23, 2010. https://www.teachengineering.org/lessons/view/cub_airplanes_lesson02 (accessed 1 May 2025).
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Teach Engineering: May the Force Be With You - Lift. Boulder: Integrated Teaching and Learning Program: Teach Engineering, 2004. 23 Aug. 2010. National Science Foundation. 1 May 2025 <https://www.teachengineering.org/lessons/view/cub_airplanes_lesson02>.
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Title = {Teach Engineering: May the Force Be With You - Lift},
Publisher = {Integrated Teaching and Learning Program: Teach Engineering},
Volume = {2025},
Number = {1 May 2025},
Month = {August 23, 2010},
Year = {2004}
}
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Teach Engineering: May the Force Be With You: Weight
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