Activity developed by Redland City Council Libraries
Age group | Year 3+ (ages 8+) |
Method | Drop-in activity |
Participant to facilitator ratio | 2 staff available |
Duration | 1 hour 10 mins |
Participants will work individually to fine tune the design of a paper plane in an attempt to have the longest flight time with a Bluetooth propeller attached. The planes will be controlled by a connected tablet.
This activity encourages participants to think creatively to produce a paper plane that will fly the furthest given a set of pre- determined parameters and control the plane using the tablet.
Time: 15 min
Introduce all staff members; speak about what the activity is, what we will go through today and what will be achieved in the timeframe.
plane.
Time: 20 min
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.