Failure: The Good and the Bad

MATERIALS NEEDED:
  • Stories about the history of flight or biographies of people involved with the history of flight.
  • Paper, pens, pencils, crayons or other art supplies.

STEPS TO FOLLOW:

one Put the word "Failure" on the board or make the beginning of a bulletin board with the word at the top.

two Brainstorm in small groups or with the whole group. How do students feel when they fail? Is failure ever good? How is failure good. Do other people fail? What can you do if you fail? How can you correct your mistakes? How did the people we study in the history of flight correct their mistakes?

three Bring out the highlights of the story of a person failing. Draw or write about their failures and what they did to correct mistakes and to eventually be successful. Were there some people who were never successful, but lead the pathway for future successes by other people?

four Present the project to the class. Display projects on the bulletin board marked "failure." Discuss how many failures there were compared to one success. Make a graph of failure compared to successes throughout the history of flight.


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