Activity developed by Redland City Council Libraries
Age group | Year 3+ (ages 8+) |
Method | Small group activity |
Participant to facilitator ratio | 10:1 |
Duration | 1 hour 25 mins |
Participants will have fun learning and problem solving as they design and fold paper planes to be used with the PowerUp 2.0 paper plane motor. They’ll work as a team to determine the best method and material for folding the plane and then compete in a contest of flying their final designs.
Note: put all AA batteries into kits (This requires a screwdriver)
Time: 10 min
Welcome attendees to the session. Introduce yourself and run over the housekeeping e.g. Fire evacuation, toilets etc. and quickly explain what we will be doing in the session. Show an example of a PowerUp 2.0 and what can be achieved with the paper plane kit.
Time: 40 min
Attendees are in groups of 4 and create a plane that is designed to travel a distance to gain points which are taped out on the floor. A “rough” design down has been drawn below.
Time: 30 min
Time: 5 min
At the end of the session, ask for volunteers to share their learnings or how they found the session. Thank everyone for their participation and team work.
State Library has kits of this item available for loan to libraries within the Regional Libraries Queensland and Indigenous Knowledge Centres network. Libraries can place a reservation through the Aurora catalogue (availability is subject to existing reservations, loans and associated return dates).
The kits are for use by patrons within the library only, as part of supervised library programming. They will not be listed in the public online catalogue for personal reservation.
Please contact Access Services, or phone 07 3842 9014 with any queries.
State Library does not have kits of this item available for loan to libraries.