Air Shark! Novice-Level Paper Airplanes: 4D An Augmented Reading Paper-Folding Experience

by Marie Buckingham

Overview

Coach your readers into the sky with a few basic paper folds and a side of science. Photo-illustrated instructions show young flight-school students how to build the Air Shark and other novice-level paper airplanes step by step. Fact-filled sidebars and an "Inside the Hangar" feature work in tandem with the projects to explain flight concepts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781543507966
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	01/01/2018
Series:	Paper Airplanes with a Side of Science 4D
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.31(d)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Marie Buckingham is a professional portrait photographer with a lifelong love for airplanes. When she's not taking pictures in her studio, she can be found in her workshop, building radio-controlled airplanes, or out on the flying field, flying them. She lives in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, with her husband, two sons, and a beagle named Casper.

Table of Contents

Time to fly -- Materials -- Techniques and terms -- Folding symbols -- Air Shark -- Wind tunnel -- Streaking Eagle -- Whisper Dart -- Vampire Bat -- Arrowhead -- Nighthawk -- Vapor -- Inside the hangar -- Read more -- Internet sites.

Interviews

fact-filled text pairs with fun, hands-on paper crafts to provide comprehensive explanations of flight-science concepts; requiring only paper, the series is a strong, cost-saving choice for school/library makerspaces; activities range in difficulty from beginner to expert to appeal to a broad audience; projects build in difficulty from title to title to strengthen crafting and fine motor skills

Editorial Reviews

04/01/2018
Gr 1–5—Paper folding, with its reliance on intricate hand movements, benefits mightily from the additional content located on the Capstone 4D app. (Kids already use YouTube and other online sources to learn skills, whether it's clearing a dungeon in Minecraft or perfecting their foul shot.) In addition to being an ideal medium for demonstrating techniques, the videos on the app train readers to go back and forth between the text and the video. The video content is super granular, with as many as 16 steps per plane. Sidebars contribute aviation engineering facts and concepts, and a photo—but no video—shows the optimal grasp for launching each plane on its best, longest flight. Graph paper—patterned background gives the books a technical visual style, but steps laid out in a meandering order (likely meant to reinforce print concepts by requiring readers to follow a path of dotted lines) will be maddeningly counterintuitive to some folks. VERDICT The combination of text, photos, and videos make these projects nearly foolproof. A fine choice, especially if students can easily access the related app.

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