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Gossamer Wings and the Alchemy of Flight

By Heather Pringle | June 14, 2010 | 3 Comments

Take one brilliant middle-school science teacher with a love of hang-gliding.   Add a classroom of typical teenagers, a phone book, a stack of printer paper, and a pair of scissors.  Watch something truly magical take place, as a fleet of miniature planes takes to the air on gossamer wings.   Who wants to work when there are origami planes to fly?

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3 Responses to “Gossamer Wings and the Alchemy of Flight”

  1. Rosie
    June 15th, 2010 @ 8:57 am

    This is absolutely wonderful and a genius teacher.

  2. Sallie
    June 15th, 2010 @ 11:18 am

    Heather– What a great teacher. I really thank you for sending this to us. I always enjoy your emails

  3. Heather Pringle
    June 16th, 2010 @ 12:16 pm

    Hi Rosie and Sallie:

    Thanks for joining me here! I am just gob-smacked by this science teacher, who makes the physics of hang-gliding so concrete and so much fun.

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