Create and test paper planes and use them to set goals for the upcoming school year!

In this cross-curricular Visual Art & Design and Technologies task, students build paper planes by either following an instruction sheet and template or designing and testing their own plane. They will decorate their planes and, on a paper strip, write the steps they plan on taking in order to reach an ultimate end of year goal. These strips can be scrunched up and glued to a whole class crafted cloud.

Display this activity by hanging the cloud and planes from your classroom ceiling and attaching the planes to the cloud with string! This download also includes an optional banner you can add to finish off your display.

Enlarge your prints to A3 paper to increase the size of the finished product. Alternatively, print the plane templates two to a page to create miniature paper planes for multi-step goal setting processes.

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