Bio-Inspired Flight Melissa Burns; Amy Jameson Sharpsburg Elementary, Norwood, Ohio; Gilbert A. Dater High School, Cincinnati, Ohio Goal: Students will understand the forces that act on a plane, apply the knowledge gained to predict flight conditions and complete follow up activities. Applications: Build models, study airfoils, use FoilSim Society: Improved flight, saving fuel, safer air travel, Careers: engineers, pilot, military, biologist 6th grade students 12th grade physics students Built paper airplanes to learn about the forces that act on a plane. Complete math and computer problems Build a plane and fly it successfully! Make flying tubes and fly a Zagi to learn about forces that act on a plane Use FoilSim and lift equations to analyze conditions of flight Research the Wright Flyer and identify the engineering that created it. Ohio Standards: Science Inquiry, Scientific Ways of Knowing, Science and Technology, Physical Science Misconceptions addressed: The motion of an object is always in the direction of the net force applied to the object. Acceleration always means that an object is speeding up. Acceleration is always in a straight line. Engineers and scientists use the same models of experimentation References: http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html Acknowledgements: Dr. Kelly Cohen, Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Cody Lafountain, Curtis Fox, Andrea Burrows, Dr. Anant Kukreti, Philip Grosvenor Project RET/REU is funded through NSF Grant # EEC 0808696 1