We had a fantastic field trip to the EAA Museum. Our family is studying the 1900's this year. The boys love the 20th century because they love the war stuff. The EAA Museum has many WWII planes.
The big yellow and black thing is an example of the bombs that were dropped on Japan.
After a tour of the museum we broke up into a younger kids group and an older kids group. The older kids got to design, cut out and build a balsa glider plane. The students loved this.
Below is my youngest making his paper airplane. They had a class to talk about how to fold and make the planes. Then they got to 'test' their planes to see how well they flew.
Below is the 'testing'! The kids really got into this aspect!
Here is JJ testing to see how far his plane will fly. Believe it or not his flew the farthest of all the planes - 42 feet. Isn't that something! Great fun!
4 comments:
Awesome pictures! I love looking at your pictures! Sounds like a very neat field trip. We live not too very far away from an air force base, so I think our group may try a field trip there this spring. I hope so, because I think my son would enjoy the planes, too!
glad you had such a great trip!!!
What a great field trip!
It was really fun and lots of great learning too!
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