Paper Helicopter Templates (Page 2 of 4) in pdf

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Paper Helicopters

Activity

When we talk of flight we can mean a number of things. Some things

SETTING THE SCENE

actually fly while others glide or float. What do these do – aeroplanes

and birds, gliders and flying foxes, balloons?

Have pictures of things in flight so that children can compare and

contrast.

Discuss aeroplanes – how they have to keep moving in order to stay in

the air. So how do helicopters stay still in the air? (The spin of the

rotor blades keeps them up.)

What do sycamore seeds do when they fall off the tree? Describe

what happens.

What makes a good helicopter?

TRIGGER QUESTIONS

Can you make some different helicopters and decide which one is best?

What do we mean by best? Is it the one that spins the most?

Or is it the one that takes longest to fall to the ground?

THE CHILDREN CAN DECIDE WHICH.

Drop different things from a height and observe how they fall. Dropping flat pieces of

DEVELOPMENT

paper and scrunched-up pieces could set the scene.

OF ACTIVITY

Care to be taken if children stand up on chairs/stools in order to drop the helicopters

SAFETY

from a greater height.

Begin by using the templates to make paper helicopters and watching them spin as they

ACTIVITY

are dropped.

Cut

Rotor

Cut

Bend

Leg

Cut

Fold

Bend the rotor blades the other way around and watch again. Is it any different this time?

Then make variations on the design by changing the length of rotor blades, the type of

paper/card, the number of paper-clips, etc.

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