Final Project PPT Script

Taney, Rebecca
EDU 214
Monday, December 12, 2016

Scenario
Ms. Taney: Good morning, Everyone!
Students: Good morning, Ms. Taney!
Ms. Taney: Today, the goal of our lesson is to familiarize
ourselves with inventions created by humans in the pursuit of
flight. We will be watching a Powerpoint presentation featuring
several major models of flight and the remarkable individuals
who helped create and diversify the field of Aeronautics.

Scenario (continued)
Ms. Taney: After the Powerpoint presentation, we will each design our
own paper versions of model airplanes and then write a brief narrative
story about our aircrafts and the individuals who fly in them.
Student A: Will we be able to pick our own designs?
Ms. Taney: Yes. You will each be able to pick one design out of several
cutouts provided on the project table. Than, you will have time to color
and cutout your chosen design before you write your account that
goes with your paper airplane.

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Ms. Taney: First, I want to take about 5 minutes to discuss what types of
flight inventions we might already know. I want each of you to take turns
naming as many different creations of flight, used by humans, as possible.
While I list them on the board.
Student B: What counts as a creation of flight?
Student C: Like an airplane, right?
Ms. Taney: Yes, like an airplane. Which we should list as our first invention
of flight. (Proceed to mark airplane on white board.)

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Male student: Would a parachute count?
Female student: Or a helicopter!
Student A: How about the a space shuttle?
Ms. Taney: Yes. All of those are excellent examples of creations of flight.
Each of them were designed to fly people through the air or into space. (
(Marks more students answers on white board.)

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Ms. Taney: Next, I would like you each to go back to the project table and pick out
the paper airplane design that you like. Then sit at the table assigned with the same
number as your cutout.
Ms. Taney: Each table has its own supplies. You are free to use whatever you want
from the materials in front of you.
Female student: Can we use both crayons and markers?
Ms. Taney: Yes, you can use whatever combination of coloring materials you want to
at the table your assigned. If you want to use something that is on another table,
kindly ask to borrow it, and make sure to return the item as soon as your done using
it.

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Ms. Taney: Once everyone is seated at the table assigned to their models,
choose one person at your table to read the directions out loud to everyone
with the same design, which should be everyone at the assigned table.
Student F: What if your design doesnt match anyone else at the table?
Ms. Taney: If anyone is sitting at a table where the majority doesnt have your
paper airplane design, please come over here so that we can find the table you
belong at. (Resort students into proper groups.)
Ms. Taney: Once instructions are given, you may proceed to work on your
paper airplane. When everyone is done, we will begin the presentation.

Scenario (continued)
Ms. Taney: Todays presentation features several different types of flight inventions
that have been created and successful flown in human history.
Ms. Taney: The first form a human flight come from early Chinese history. Around 1300
AD, the famous explorer, Marco Polo brought back to Europe accounts of Chinese
soldiers using kites designed to help carry a single man that could scout the
surrounding land for enemy troops.
Students: How could a kite hold up a person? And why didnt anyone see them?
Ms. Taney: These kites were really big and built to be study enough to hold someone
for a short amount of time. And nobody ever said that the people watching from above
werent spotted from down below. Just that they used kites in such a manner.

Scenario (continued)
Ms. Taney: The first major form of flight travel was the hot-air balloon.
Students: Like the one used in The Great and Powerful Oz?
Ms. Taney: Exactly like the one in the movie, The Great and Powerful
Oz. During the late 1700s, there were multiple hot-air balloon flights
taking place around Europe.
Ms. Taney: One of the most famous hot-air balloon trips was by JeanPierre Blanchard and John Jefferies. Together, they made the first ever air
crossing of the English Channel in about 2 hours.

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Ms. Taney: Also invented in the late 1700s was the parachute. An man named Andre
Jacques Garnerin was the first person to jump 2,000 feet from a balloon using a
parachute.
Ms. Taney: Does anyone know a job where someone would have to use a parachute?
Student C: My brother is a paratrooper! They use them all the time!
Student A: Pilots are suppose to have them too, in case of emergencies.
Ms. Taney: Thats right. Both of those jobs use parachutes either on a day to day basis
or at least during exercise training.

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Ms. Taney: Speaking of pilots the first airplane design was
called the model glider. Between the years 1770 and 1900,
three men would change the way people thought about flight.
Students: The Wright Brothers?
Ms. Taney: Good guess, but no. They come a little later. The
names of these three men were George Cayley, Otto Lilienthal,
and Samuel P. Langley. Together, there created the first
mechanical models of flight.

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Ms. Taney: Next, would be the Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur. In the
span of five years, these two brothers would revolutionize flight by creating
the first bi-plane.
Students: Is that how we got airplanes?
Ms. Taney: Yes. Bi-planes would be the same model used to later create
the modern airplane that we commonly see today.
Ms. Taney: After years of work, on October 5, 1905, Wilbur piloted their
aircraft for 39 minutes, over about 24 miles, until he ran it out of gas.

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Ms. Taney: Later, in the same early years of 1900, two
more forms are air travel were born. The first was the
zeppelin in the year 1928. The most successful rigid
airship ever built was the Graf zeppelin which flew more
than a million miles, spent more than 16,000 hours in the
air, and carried a total of 13,000 passengers.
Ms. Taney: While in 1939, the first helicopter was
designed by Igor Sikorsky. Even though the flight only
lasted for just a few seconds, Sikorsky decided to pilot it
himself.

Scenario (continued)
Ms. Taney: All of these flight inventions have lead us to our
greatest creations of flight yet models designed to go into space.
Ms. Taney: In 1958, the first model ever created by the US for
space was the Explorer I earth satellite, which was the first time
people had ever seen what the Earth looked like from space.
Ms. Taney: Later by 1962, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin
become the first people to leave the Earth and land on a foreign
body, the Moon.

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Ms. Taney: Today, we have the International Space Station, which was launched back
in 1998. It represents that height of innovation in the human quest to, not only
obtained the power of flight, but to master it and expand it into new avenues.
Ms. Taney: In honor of those whove accomplished the feat of flight, we will now use
our independent practice activity to create a backstory for the pilot, co-pilot, and/or
crew member(s) on your paper aircraft and write a short narrative essay about the
most memorable flight your aircraft has traversed.
Students: How many pages does the essay have to be?
Ms. Taney: The essays should be between 1 to 2 pages long. After everyone had
written their account, you will trade papers will a classmate.

Scenario (continued)
Students: Can we pick our partners?
Ms. Taney: Yes, you may pick our own partners. Each partner will read the others essay
and on a separate piece of paper- create a brief account of what it was like to be a
passenger during the aircrafts memorable journey.
Students: Does the journey have to take place here?
Ms. Taney: The journey can take place anywhere you want to anywhere you want, even
anther world or dimension.
Ms. Taney: Once everyone is done, each set of partners with present both their stories
followed by the corresponding passenger account to the class.

Scenario (continued)
Students: Do you have to present both stories first or one story and the
passenger account and then the other?
Male student: Do you have to read your own story or can you read each
others out loud?
Ms. Taney: One story at a time along with its passenger account. And its
up to you and your partner who wants to read whos story out to the
class
(Students write and then present stories.)

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Ms. Taney: Finally, Id like to wrap up this lesson by asking anyone who wishes to share:
Have you ever traveled in an Airplane? If so, do you remember the experience?
Ms. Taney: If you do wish to share, please make sure to tell us what age you were when
you traveled by air, where you were going, and, if possible, for what occasion were you
traveling?
(Students share personal flight experiences.)
Ms. Taney: Thank you all for your participation today. I look forward to seeing you all
again tomorrow! Bye-bye!
Students: Bye, Ms. Taney!