APN Newspapers in Education

All the material in the archived pages section relate to the previously published NiE pages. Click here to download the published page.

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Then click on the left-hand menu to access: The Theme quiz, downloadable pdf Theme lessons and teacher notes that go with the NiE page.

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This week’s NiE NewsSplash page is Up in the air. The page introduces some simple flight concepts to students and lets them experiment. How things fly is above the level required for the age group, but there is a separate pdf lesson that introduces forces if you want to extend the scientific learning related to how flight is possible.

You can compare the types of aircraft, their speed, capacity and purpose. You could use the page as a springboard to explore the way the development of aircraft has changed the way we transport people and goods and made the world seem smaller. Or examine the features that birds have that help them fly.

New flight technology is often in the news. Last week’s visit to NZ by the astronauts from Discovery space shuttle caused some recent excitement. More information and teaching suggestions can be found under the More information tab.

Page contents
Aircraft – students identify different types of aircraft and think about their uses
Make a helicopter – students make a paper helicopter and observe how it performs
Flight – features that help birds, helicopters and planes fly. Students fill in the missing words
Flight news –some recent news stories about flight

The downloadable theme lessons include:
Flight in New Zealand – students match captions with news pictures about flight in New Zealand
Paper plane flights – students make and test three paper planes to find out which design performs the best
Forces that act upon planes – students read about the four forces that affect plane flight (drag, thrust, lift, gravity) and label a diagram

You can find these lessons under the Theme lessons tab.

Encourage your students to use the student activities accessible from the home page. They do not need to register on the website.

Student Features

Encourage your students to use the Front Page Builder activity accessible from the home page. They do not need to register on the website.

Page Theme Quiz – new each week

Front Page Builder – an interactive front page builder where students use supplied current news pictures and captions to make their own front page.

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The APN NiE team