EiE: Designing Parachutes - set 1 (2 boxes) Check Availability

This unit introduces students to aerospace engineering—and how aerospace engineers use their knowledge of astronomy to design space technologies. Starting with the storybook Paulo’s Parachute Mission, students learn about a boy from Brazil who designs a parachute to get a large, heavy fruit down from a tree. Students apply their knowledge of drag (air resistance) and conditions on other planets to engineer a model parachute that’s “mission ready” to land a payload on a planet with an atmosphere much thinner than Earth’s. 

Engineering is Elementary Unit Components

Engineering is Elementary units consist of three components: teacher guides, storybooks, and materials kits. Teacher guides include four detailed lesson plans, one context-setting storybook, background content, teacher tips, suggestions for English Learner differentiation and grade level adaptation, and duplication masters for student handouts and assessments. Find additional unit-specific resources below to enhance student learning with Spanish translations, content area connections, standards alignment, extension lessons, classroom videos, and more!