Posted Thursday, February 5, 2009
Featured on Episode 18 of the 2008-2009 season
It flies like a plane, drives like a car, and runs on biofuel. It may sound like something from a movie, but a revolutionary new machine designed by British engineers is very real, and has taken to the roads, and skies. It's called the SkyCar. Road legal, all terrain buggy one moment, the next, it can take off under its own power using a rear propeller and a fabric wing. Giles Cardozo says building the SkyCar was his life long dream. In propeller mode, Giles says its cruising speed in the air is 70 miles per hour. Top speed on the road, 120 miles per hour. Now an ambitious expedition is testing the SkyCar's capabilities. The plan is to drive and fly from London, through France, Spain, Morocco, Mauritania and the Sahara Desert to Mali's famously isolated city of Timbuktu. Experienced adventurer Neil Laughton will pilot the craft on its epic journey.
Students will look at the history of flying cars and use creative writing to describe their own voyage on one.
Grades: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
Subjects: Science, Social Studies
Standards Addressed: Social Studies:
Students will be able to identify systems of transportation used to move people and products and systems of communication used to move ideas from place to place.
Language Arts:
Students will be able to deliver an oral presentation demonstrating an understanding of a subject.
Students will be able to ask questions for clarification and explanation.
Students will be able to produce informal writing.
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