Flight

What do you love to do most? Watch this inspirational message about a young man’s dreams of flight.

Teaching Ideas and Resources:

English

• Make a similar video that tells others about your own dreams, memories and achievements.
• Listen to the words in the video. Are there any words that you haven’t heard before?
• Write a story about a person who can fly.
• Imagine that your teacher can fly. How would your day at school be different?

Science

• What forces are involved in flight? Draw pictures of different machines flying and add labels to show the forces that are taking place.

Computing

• Make an animation that shows somebody flying.
• Use programming software to create a game in which a flying character has to collect / rescue something.

Design Technology

• People can fly using different machines. Can you find out how these different machines work? Could you try to make your own flying model?

Art

• How is flight shown in cartoons and comic strips? Can you create your own illustrations that show flight?

Music

• Listen to the music in the video. What instrument is being played?
• Can you describe the music using musical vocabulary?

Geography

• Imagine that you could fly anywhere in the world. Where would you go? What places would you travel through to get there? How long might it take?

History

• What is the history of flight? Can you write a report about this topic?

PSHE

• What do you love to do most? What are your dreams? What is your strongest memory?
• The person in the video mentions that he discovered ‘a great potential’. What does this mean? What is your great potential?
• In the video, the person has to practise their flight. What skills do you need to practise?