1. Paper Plane Orientation
Shaw STEM Lab: 2018

2. Objectives
At the end of this PowerPoint you and your partner should be able to:
Locate and save a rubric
Describe the requirements for your Word document
Create an Agenda & Journal
Locate and research your Person of Interest
Formulate at least two different paper planes
Take pictures utilizing at least two of the different ways
Formulate a presentation describing your engagement

3. Download your Rubric!
Before you start each Engagement, you will need to download a rubric
No Rubric = No Grade
Navigate back to the class website, hover over 7th Grade, at the very bottom click on “Rubric”

4. Download your Rubric! Click on “Download File”
Select “Open” at the bottom of the page

5. Download your Rubric! Select “Enable Editing”
Save this into your “Paper Planes” folder

6. Project Planner
Your Project Planner is where you store important information about your Engagement.
This will be done on a Word document
At the top of a new Word document, place the following:
Names
Date
Team #
Paper Planes
Example:
Mr. Ochs
Mrs. Zinser
October 22, 2013
Team #8
Orientation

7. Word Documents Requirements
The Word Document must be WHITE
The text must be BLACK
Fonts you may use
Calibri
Courier New
Times New Roman

8. Objective What is it that you hope to accomplish in your Engagement?
Your objective is where you predict what it is you think you are going to accomplish. This will first be recorded in your Word document.
Your objective should be Specific, Attainable, and Measurable.
Specific: Is your objective specific to the engagement that you are working on?
Attainable: Is your objective realistic?
Measurable: How do you know if you’ve succeeded?

9. Objective For this engagement, your objective will be:
I want to formulate an airplane that flies ________ meters.
Think about how this objective is: Specific, Attainable, and Measureable.

10. Agenda What will you do today? Tomorrow? Next Tuesday?
Your Agenda is where you will layout your 10 days for what you and your partner will accomplish.
For this orientation create a sample Agenda.
It will need to be 10 days long
Things you would include in it might be:
Take pictures
Research your Person of Interest
Begin Presentation
Finalize Presentation
Rehearse Presentation
Build/Work/Continue Project

11. Agenda Your agenda may look something like the following
Day 1: Save Rubric, begin Person of Interest
Day 2: finish Person of Interest
Day 3: Read PowerPoint
Day 4: Begin Questions
Day 5: Answer Questions
Etc…

12. Journal
As part of your Word Document you will summarize what you did daily. This is called your Journal.
This will be done the last five minutes of class.
Mr. Ochs will always tell you when it is time to complete this.

13. On to the planes! Paper Plane History
Paper planes can be traced back to china, approximately 2,000 years ago when the Chinese invented kites.
Japanese origami, which dates to the 12th century, developed the art form of folding paper into different shapes.
The word origami comes from the Japanese words “oru,” to fold, and “kami,” paper. In the late 1700s, hot air balloons were built partly out of paper.

14. Paper Planes Today
Today paper airplane construction is a popular hobby. There are many ways to build airplanes. Traditionalists use only a sheet of paper while other cut, tape, or paste their airplanes together.
The Guinness Book of World Records even has multiple paper airplane categories including flight duration, distance and wingspan.

15. Paper Planes Records
The record for distance with a paper plane is meters set in February 2012.
The record for duration of flight is 27.9 seconds! This was set in 2009.
The largest wingspan on a paper aircraft is meters.

16. How does paper fly?
Paper planes are usually gliders. The wings on the plane allow the plane to “sit” on air. The wings compress the air molecules underneath them.
This creates a higher pressure than the air above the wings. The air above the wings would then have a lower pressure. The wings then “rest” on the higher air pressure.

17. How do planes fly?
Moving the rudders, ailerons, or flaps up or down can change the flight path of an airplane. For example, folding flaps on the wings down can result in a nosedive and folding the flaps up can point the airplane in an upward direction.
Engineers start with designing and testing several different models of an airplane before they can get the approval to build a real one. They often have to work under specific constraints or limits, including the purpose of the airplane. By testing different models of planes, the engineer can determine which one is best for distance, speed and other factors.

18. Questions/Research
As part of every engagement, there will be some questions that you will need to answer.
To receive full credit you will need to rewrite the question and then answer it in complete sentences.
About 90% of the answers should be found in the PowerPoint.

19. Questions/Research
How far back can we trace paper planes and from where?
Where did the word “origami” come from?
Describe how a paper plane flies.
How big is the largest paper plane?
What three (3) things on a plane change the direction it flies?
Click the picture and watch the video. Formulate at least three (3) sentences of things you learned.

20. Questions/Research
Cite the different ways to take pictures/videos in the STEM Lab.
Explain where your projects (example: paper planes) should be stored in the STEM Lab.
Describe the requirements for your Person of Interest (what do you need to have to get a 4).

21. Creating Paper Planes
You and your partner are to create two different paper planes each. If you are not familiar with making paper planes, research different paper planes on the Internet. There are some links on the next slide. Please do not print any instructions.
Be responsible with your paper use
You and your partner are to only create two paper planes each

22. Paper Plane Instructions

23. Saving Your Plane
After you and your partner have made two planes each, make sure your names are on them and place them on the wire rack until we test them as a class.
1st Period: Black
2nd Period: Purple
3rd Period: Green
4th Period: Yellow
5th Period: Blue
6th Period: Pink

24. Flight Distances (meters) Speed (Distance/Time)
Time to Fly!
We will test your paper planes as a class! In your Word document create a table that is 4 X 6
Your table should look similar to the one shown here
To create a table:
Click Insert then Table at the top of Word
Flight Distances (meters)
Flight Time (Seconds)
Speed (Distance/Time)
Paper Plane 1
Paper Plane 2
Paper Plane 3
Paper Plane 4
Average

25. Pictures
It will be important for you to know the different ways to take and share pictures with the rest of the class.
You already know about one of them – the webcam
The other two are Print Screens and Still Pictures

26. Pictures Print Screens
In this method the computer takes a picture of what is on your monitor
Like a screen shot on your phone
To take a Print Screen
Press the “Print Sc”
Paste where you’d like your picture to appear

27. Pictures Still Pictures
In this method you check out a camera and take pictures
This is useful when you need to take a higher quality picture or take a picture of something away from your computer
In the STEM Lab we have three cameras available for check out
If you take a picture with these cameras look on the class website on how to transfer the pictures to your team’s drive

28. Videos Another way you may want to share your work is with videos
On each of the computers is a program called Screencast-o-matic
This program records a video of what is on your monitor, or uses the webcam, or both.
There is also a video camera available to check out as well!
Videos or PowerPoints to help you with these can be found on the class website.

29. Person of Interest
Your Person of Interest will be someone that is related to your engagement. This should be completed on your Word Document.
You locate your Person by looking on the class website under your specific engagement.
To receive full credit for your Person you need at least five sentences and at least one picture.
Note: Do not include anything about their birth or death.

30. Presentation
The last major part of an engagement is your presentation.
Your presentation should incorporate three major things
Your objective and an explanation of your Engagement
Teaching a relevant skill
Summary of what you’ve learned

31. Presentation Your objective and an explanation of your Engagement
Your objective is what your wrote down when you very began your engagement. Remember it needs to be Smart, Attainable, and Measureable
The explanation of the Engagement is just what it sounds like. If you were to explain what the whole engagement is about to someone who had never heard about it, what would you tell them!

32. Presentation Teach a Relevant Skill
What skill would someone need in order to be successful at this Engagement.
The skill you share needs to be related to your engagement.
Hint: Pictures and video are the best way to show this!

33. Presentation Summary of what you’ve learned
What did you learn? This is not a time to share what you thought about the engagement, or what you did. After finishing this engagement – what did you learn or gain from it?

34. WOW! That’s a lot of information!
A few tips to help our class run smoothly!
Three Before Me Rule: Try to solve the problem three different ways before you ask Mr. Ochs
Reread the PowerPoint, Google search it, ask another team, use the Help function in the program your stuck on, etc.
There are videos and PowerPoints on the class website that will help you and guide you through different things.
Don’t give up! You will fail, something will not work, something may break. Keep moving forward! STEM Lab is a safe place to learn and try new things!