Flights Of Fancy

Cooper and I went on the 5th grade Flight Simulator field trip this year. This was my first time going......thanks Rob for volunteering me and telling me 2 days before hand!! They had been working for about a month on a unit in flight so the reward at the end is the field trip to the simulators. Here is Cooper on the bus on our way......Here are the "practice" simulators for the airplanes so that you can practice all the stuff in the books that you have been learning before you get in the real simulators.Here is Cooper and his partner quizzing each other and practicing....
Time for the rotations.....There are five rotations: The Flight Experiments, The Airplane Simulator, The Computer Simulator, The Helicopter Simulator and Lunch. We started out at Wrights Runway AKA the experiments where you try out experiments of different types of flight with making different kinds of paper airplanes & hovering crafts and you fill out your notebook with your hypothesis and conclusions of each experiment. The kids really did enjoy this.The computer simulators. Each student was given their flight plan they had to follow and fly the plane and land where the flight plan told them to by the coordinates without crashing.All the kids liked this but it was hard!! Then it was off to the playground for lunch
Our fourth rotation was the Airplane Simulator! Everyone had a turn on this and some found it easier than others but all enjoyed it.
Cooper's favorite was the Helicopter rotation.They have a Boeing volunteer who was very patient with the children in his explaining and teaching.....thank goodness cuz the lady that runs the rest of it was a bit snippy...
Cooper found this to be fun and interesting.
I was glad I could go with Cooper on this field trip it was a nice time with Coop and the other children who were well behaved and fun to be with.