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Activities | The ups and downs of Australian air traffic control

  • NASA, USA
    • LineUp with math – students apply proportional reasoning to make decisions about air traffic control problems involving two or more planes using an online air traffic control simulator.

  • TryEngineering, USA
    • Engineering air traffic – students work in teams on a virtual air traffic system, and plan to bring three planes through the airspace.

  • Texas A & M University, USA
    • Use and interpretation of radar – an on-line tutorial which discusses the basic principle of operation of weather radars, describes how to interpret radar mosaics and discusses the use of radar in weather forecasting.

  • Newton's Apple, USA
    • Jumbo jets – demonstrating Bernoulli's principle
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