How Living Things Fly - Google Slides and PowerPoint Lesson

This lesson package on How Living Things Fly begins by looking at the Characteristics of flying birds including how they produce lift and thrust and are able to fly by reducing drag and weight. It ends by examining Gliding and Parachuting as well as other flying animals.

The package contains diagrams, examples, and explanations. It includes the lesson (student and teacher versions of the lesson), a collaborative challenge activity, 6 embedded videos, and a student lesson handout as a word document that follows the presentation. Additionally, each resource comes as a Google document or slide which has already been formatted and is ready to upload to your Drive with a single click.

In order, the lesson covers:

Characteristics of flying birds

--Wings to produce lift

--Powerful flight muscles to generate forward motion

--Aerodynamic body reduces drag

--Very light bones with air sacs reduces weight

- Gliding and Parachuting

- Other flying animals

Included in the lesson package is:

• Google and Office versions of each resource

• The teacher version of the presentation

• The student version of the presentation

• A collaborative challenge activity

• 6 videos embedded into the presentation

This lesson includes both Office and Google formats for ALL resources. The presentation is in PowerPoint and Google Slides while all documents contain Word and Google Doc versions.

• Your resource is perfect for distance learning and integrates seamlessly with Google Classroom as I've included a link that will automatically create a copy of the resources and put them directly into your Google Drive with one click.

• Download--> Open --> Click --> Assign to your students

Having both options allows you to use either without worrying about formatting issues as all the work has already been done for you. It safeguards you in case your department or school decides to go Google 100% and allows you as well as your students to access everything no matter where you are or what kind of equipment is being used.

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The student version of the presentation contains multiple blanks that need to be filled in throughout the lesson. These blanks are conveniently underlined and bolded on the teacher copy. I have found this to be the most effective means of keeping my students engaged and active without having them write everything out. This also leaves more time for discussion and activities.

1 zip file with:

-2 PowerPoints

-1 Word doc

In order, the lesson covers:

Characteristics of flying birds

--Wings to produce lift

--Powerful flight muscles to generate forward motion

--Aerodynamic body reduces drag

--Very light bones with air sacs reduces weight

- Gliding and Parachuting

- Other flying animals

Included in the lesson package is:

Google and Office versions of each resource

The teacher version of the presentation

The student version of the presentation

A collaborative challenge activity

6 videos embedded into the presentation