RAF 100 STEM Project Moray 1948 1958 Ejection

RAF 100 STEM Project - Moray 1948 -1958 Ejection Seat

RAF 100: Aiming for Awesome Introduction • Aiming for Awesome celebrates the centenary of the RAF and explores the engineering achievements of the RAF over the last 100 years. • There are 10 lessons, each covering a different decade of RAF history. 1918 -1928: Aircraft design 1928 -1938: Radar 1938 -1948: Speed record 1948 -1958: Ejection seat 1958 -1968: Code breaking 1968 -1978: Satellite age 1978 -1988: Disaster relief 1988 -1998: Logistics challenge 1998 -2008: Remotely piloted air systems • 2008 -2018: Stealth • • •

RAF 100: Aiming for Awesome – Moray Project Report • As well as the STEM activities, each week you will find out a bit more about the topic through research. • Over the course of the 10 lessons you will create a project report. • The Project Report will contain: • A page for each weeks topic with: 1. Reflection on what you did in the lesson and what you learned. 2. What you found out in your research of that weeks topic. • A final reflection telling us what you learned, what you liked best and what you might like to find out next!

RAF 100: Aiming for Awesome – Skills

Session 4 – 1948 -1958: Ejection Seat Learning Intentions • I will be able to discuss why and where an ejection seat might be used and where it would not • I will investigate the STEM behind ejection seats by creating a model ejection seat. • I will contribute to a risk assessment before testing out the model ejection seat. • I will use fair testing to allow me to compare the classes models and decide which design is best and why.

Session 4 – 1948 -1958: Ejection Seat STEM Activities 1. Time to Think: • Ejection seats can save lives. However, they are not used in commercial passenger aircraft. • In pairs, discuss why ejection seats are not used in this way. 2. Time to make: • Design an ejection seat for an RAF pilot on a bottle rocket. • Your RAF pilot should be attached to a bottle so that when the rocket is launched, the pilot detaches from the rocket and deploys a parachute to land safely.

Session 4 – 1948 -1958 Ejection Seat Research Task PAGE 4 of Project – Title = Ejection Seat 1. Reflection on what you did in the lesson and what you learned. 2. Look at the Engineering Habits of Mind diagram: Think/Pair/Share – which skills have you developed in the project so far? Which skills would you like to focus on next?

Session 4 – 1948 -1958 Ejection Seat Debrief Did today’s lesson meet the Learning Intentions? • • I will be able to discuss why and where an ejection seat might be used and where it would not I will investigate the STEM behind ejection seats by creating a model ejection seat. I will contribute to a risk assessment before testing out the model ejection seat. I will use fair testing to allow me to compare the classes models and decide which design is best and why. Have you completed the fourth page of RAF 100: Aiming for Awesome – Moray Project Report on Ejection Seats? 1. Reflection on what you did in the lesson and what you learned. 2. Look at the Engineering Habits of Mind diagram: Think/Pair/Share – which skills have you developed in the project so far? Which skills would you like to focus on next?

RAF 100 STEM Project - Moray Next time: 1958 -1968 Code Breaking