Future of flight - teacher introduction

The challenges in this resource invite pupils to explore innovations within flight technology. Explore the role of AI and machine learning and communication in aviation, investigate the forces of flight, experiment with material science and dig into the changes happening that are making flight technology more sustainable.

This resource is designed to provide practical and contextualised applications where students and teachers can see the role that STEM-based learning plays in real-world engineering scenarios.

Each of the activities and challenges have links across science, maths and design technology. However, some activities will be more heavily weighted towards one subject. Experience or subject knowledge about engineering and STEM subjects is not required. The resource has been designed to allow students to learn independently and at their own pace, with your support as a facilitator, not a subject expert.

At the launch of these resources, any school who was a part of the Royal Academy of Engineering's Connecting STEM Teachers programme received hard-copies of the resource as well as a box of the materials needed to run the activities and challenges for free. However most of the challenges can be adapted to use items that are easy to find around the house or in most classrooms.

Introductory video