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The history of flight

This is one of a series of resources from the IET designed around the theme of the future of flight with the purpose of developing pupils knowledge and skills in engineering and design technology. This activity involves pupils producing a timeline for the history of crewed flight. Rather than the conventional linear timeline, this version is presented as a hanging mobile. Pupils carry out research to identify the important technological advances and dates, then use this to create the images hung on the mobile.

This could be used as a one-off main lesson activity to develop understanding that products and technologies change over time, or to build knowledge and understanding of flight. Alternatively, it could be used as a part of a wider scheme of work to develop skills with graphic media in design and technology. 

 

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