Flight lab
Grade 6 (Ontario)
Elementary cycle 2 to 3 (Quebec)
$8.25 per student
120 minutes
Dates offered: September 22, 2025 to June 19, 2026
Max. group size: 28
What is the secret behind making aircraft fly? Uncover the science behind flight by building and testing your own custom plane models!
In this hands-on program, students will deepen their understanding of the forces of flight and explore how the Bernoulli Principle helps airplanes generate lift. They will learn how aerospace engineers use wind tunnels to test aircraft performance and get the chance to build and test their own model planes. Along the way, they’ll discover key innovations in Canadian aviation during a guided tour and apply what they learn to refine their designs using airfoil shapes. This program combines science, creativity, and problem-solving in a fun and memorable way that’s sure to help their learning take off!
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Curriculum links
Grade 6: Science and Technology
A. STEM Skills and Connections
- A1.2 Use a scientific experimentation process and associated skills to conduct investigations
- A1.3 Use an engineering design process and associated skills to design, build, and test devices, models, structures, and/or systems
- A3.1 Describe practical applications of science and technology concepts in various occupations, including skilled trades, and how these applications address real-world problems
- A3.2 Investigate how science and technology can be used with other subject areas to address real-world problems
D. Structures and Mechanisms – Flight
- D1.1 Assess the impacts on society of aviation technologies, while considering both local and global perspectives
- D2.1 Identify flight-related applications of the properties of air
- D2.2 Describe the relationships between the four forces of flight – lift, weight, thrust, and drag – that make flight possible
- D2.3 Describe ways in which flying machines and various organisms use balanced and unbalanced forces to control their flight
- D2.4 Describe ways in which the four forces of flight can be altered
Grade 6: Mathematics
B. Number
- B2.4 Represent and solve problems involving the addition and subtraction of whole numbers and decimal numbers, using estimation and algorithms
E. Spatial Sense
- E2.1 Measure length, area, mass, and capacity using the appropriate metric units, and solve problems that require converting smaller units to larger ones and vice versa
Elementary Cycle 2: Science and Technology
- Material World – Matter
- Mass and weight
- Material World – Forces and Motion
- Characteristics of motion
- Material World – Systems and Interaction
- How manufactured objects work
- Transportation technology
- Material World – Techniques and Instrumentation
- Manufacturing
- Use of simple measuring instruments
- Design and manufacture of instruments, tools, machines, structures, devices, models and simple circuits
Elementary Cycle 3: Science and Technology
- Material World – Matter
- Materials of which an object is made
- Material World – Forces and Motion
- Pressure
- Combined effects of several forces on an object
- Material World – Systems and Interaction
- Other machines
- How manufactured objects work
- Transportation technology
- Material World – Techniques and Instrumentation
- Manufacturing
- Use of simple measuring instruments
- Design and manufacture of instruments, tools, machines, structures, devices, models and simple circuits
Elementary Cycle 2: Mathematics
- Arithmetic: Operations Involving Numbers – Decimals
- Mental computation: addition, subtraction
- Written computation: addition, subtraction; the result must not go beyond the second decimal place
Elementary Cycle 3: Mathematics
- Arithmetic: Operations Involving Numbers – Decimals
- Mental computation: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
- Measurement – Masses: Estimating and Measuring
- Conventional units (kg, g), relationships between the units of measure
Fees
$8.25 per student. Please note a minimum fee of $165 applies.
*Program includes free admission for one adult for every four participants for elementary-aged students, or one adult for every six participants for secondary-aged students. Please note that there is a mandatory minimum ratio of 1 adult for every 10 students. Any additional adults not included in the program fee will be required to pay the regular visitor fee at admission and will not be able to participate in the program. These requirements do not apply to groups with students who have special needs.
Reservations
Booking requests can be made through the school programs reservation request form.
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Phone: 613-991-3053 or 1-866-442-4416
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