Hover & Soar

Interactive experiments in designing balsawood gliders with control surfaces and balloon-powered hovercrafts to complement the Ontario Ministry Grade 6 science curriculum on "Flight."

Author: Stanley Richard Taylor
Publisher: Stanley R Taylor Communications
Published: 11/09/2017
Pages: 42
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.09d
ISBN: 9780991809837

About the Author
Taylor, Stanley Richard: - Stanley R. Taylor taught for the Toronto Catholic District School Board for 23 years. He retired in 2001 and started doing workshops for students, educators and within the community for Scientists in School. Stan currently gives Science workshops in "Celestial Sleuths" (astronomy) with Grade 6 students and "Structures" with Grades 5 and 3 students. He has given workshops in "Air and Flight" for Grade 6 and "Fluids" for Grade 8. Stan sat on the Crucible and Elements Editorial Board and the Program Committee with the Science Teachers Association of Ontario (STAO), and has published 75 science articles with them since 2004. Two of his publications are: "Caught in the Web: The Spider Girls" Crucible, December 2013 involving students of Uxbridge Secondary School and "AstroNut Kids Mission #45. In Elements. He also served as Vice-Chair of the Communications Committee of PWAC. Stan has done workshops for educators at the Space Exploration Educators' Conference at Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX and for the Maine Space Day for students in Brunwick, Maine.

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