Flying lessons

Take Pioneer Flight 001 for some flying lessons.

1. Watch the movies first, then complete Gone with the Winds, and Mission Possible.
2. You will have learned how to navigate from completing Gone with the Winds.
3. Open Navigate the Skies. Calculate the true headings for the plane flights taking into account the flight direction and drift angle.

Email the navigation document to ed@tki.org.nz

Paper planes

For several years Ken Blackburn held the world record for the longest time aloft of a paper aeroplane. Your mission is to:

1. Build at least three paper planes that you think are good designs for staying aloft.
   
   • You can use Ken's designs. Open his site, click on 'Paper Airplanes You Can Fold' on the left-hand navigation bar, then choose any of the links to various designs,
   • or fold your own, select from easy medium or hard.
2. Use the fair test template to create a fair test to find which is the best design for staying aloft.
3. Take a digital photograph of the best plane you make and insert it into your fair test template.
4. Explain what features of your paper plane cause it remain aloft and how this works. Select and read Paper Airplane Aerodynamics from the navigation bar to help you.

Email your completed template to ed@tki.org.nz

Waka rererangi pepa

Kua hia kē ngā tau e mau ana i a Ken Blackburn te rekoata ā–ao mō te noho tārewa o te waka rererangi pepa mō te wā roa. Anei tō whakatakanga:

1. Hangaia kia toru ngā waka rererangi mā te pepa, e mōhio ai koe ka noho tārewa mō te wā roa.
   
   • Ka taea tō whakamahi i te tauira a Ken. Huakina tana pae, ka pēhi i te Paper airplanes i runga i te papa whakatere i te taha mauī, ka tohu i ngā hononga ki ngā momo tauira,
   • me pōkai rānei i tōu, me tohu mai i te ngāwari, ki te māmā, ki te uaua.
2. Whakamahia te tauira whākamatau pai ki te whakahoa i tētahi whakamātau pai kia kitea te tauira pai mō te noho tārewa o te waka rererangi.
3. Tangoa mai he whakaahua ā-mati, mō ngā waka rererangi pai rawa atu, ka rau ki tō tauira whakamātau pai.
4. Whakamāramahia mai ngā āhuatanga o tō waka rererangi, me ōna āhua rērere haere. Tohua ka pānui i ngā tū āhua waka rererangi hei āwhina i a koe.

Īmerahia mai tō tauira kua oti ki a wiki@tki.org.nz

Build a plane

Congratulations! You've been hired as an aeroplane design engineer for PlaneMath Enterprises. As a new employee, you'll need to visit each of their eight training departments. After you complete your training, you can go to the Design Department to receive your first project.

When you have completed a successful project copy it and email it to wiki@tki.org.nz

wickED news

You are a reporter for the wickED newspaper. Ed has just given you an assignment to cover. Write a feature article about the Wright brothers and their first recorded flight, in Kitty Hawk.

• Use the Breaking news guide and web links to research the Wright brothers. You can use these copyright free Wright photos to support your article.

Email your article to ed@tki.org.nz

Who flew first?

Ed and Wiki are debating whether Richard Pearse was really the first person to fly a powered aeroplane. Ed is taking the affirmative and Wiki is taking the negative.

1. Read about Richard Pearse and make your own decision.
2. Choose who's side you are on and write your own argument. Use this preparation form to help you prepare your argument.

Email your argument to ed@tki.org.nz

WickEDtv

Ed needs some new programmes to feature on wickEDtv.

1. Create a two minute digital story about the Wright brothers to celebrate 100 years of fight. You can use these copyright free images.
2. Open the Cookbook site, click on Storyboarding and read through the tutorial. Scroll down the tutorial page and click on "Here's how the story board would be laid out" for an example of how to plan a storyboard.
3. Scroll down the Storyboarding page and download the "storyboard template". Save it to your work folder, then plan your story including sound, narrative, and pictures.
4. Read the technical details for publication on wickEDtv.
5. Film your digital story.
6. Edit your content.
7. Send your uncompressed documentary on CD or digital video tape along with signed permission form to:
   
   
   Online Editor
   wickEDtv
   Digital Opportunities Initiative
   PO Box 19098
   Wellington

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