Flight Director Activites
Flight Director Activities are hands-on science demonstrations and activities that can be tailored to your individual
groups. Please contact Kathleen Garske at 850.645.7777 or Susan Borland at 850.645.7788 if you need additional information or are interested in scheduling a flight director activity.
Click here for a downloadable flight director activity list.
- Flight Director Activities are 45 minutes unless otherwise noted
- Fee is $2.50/student with a $75 minimum unless otherwise noted
Activity List:
Aerodynamics (K-12)
Includes:
- Wind tunnel demo
- Bernouli’s principle demo
- Wind tubes
- Bernouli straw demo
- Balloon Rockets
- Air resistance demo
- Gravity demo
Make your own Bernouli Straw (K-8): 90 minutes $8/student; Minimum 15 students
- Additional Bernouli principle demonstrations
- Students construct their own Bernouli straw that they can take home
General Physical Science (K-12)
Includes:
- Air Pressure (Why do you need a space suit?)
- Bell Jar/Vacuum pump (Balloon, shaving cream, marshmallow man)
- Kinetic and Potential Energy demos
- Gyroscope
- Satellites in space/li>
- Van de Graff generator (1 demo)
- Bell in a vacuum (sound)
- Laser demonstration of sound waves
Electro magnetic demos (Grades 4-12)
Includes:
- Lots of Van de Graff generator demos
- Gravity induced electric generator
- Copper pipe magnet demo
- Electric motor demo
- Magnet demos
Build your own electric motor (Grades 4-12): 90 minutes $10/student; Minimum 15 students
Students build their own electric motor to take home. This is the motor demonstrated in the Electro magnetic demos.
This is a stand alone flight director activity or can be added to the Electric magnetic demo flight director activity listed above.
Light & Optics (Grades 8-12)
Includes:
- Lasers (How do they work? Different types of lasers)
- Lenses (Concave, convex, Fresnel, Snell’s law)
- Prisms
- Polarizers
- Wave structure of light
Build your own Flight Director Activity
Pick activities from the above to come up with 45 minutes of demos specially designed for your class. Contact the Challenger Learning Center for the times associated with each activity to help build your own flight director activity.
Future Flight Director Activities
- Temperature
- Life and Environmental Science
Please contact Susan Borland 850.645.7788 or Kathy Safford Osborne 850.645.7797 if you need
additional information or are interested in scheduling a flight director activity.
