Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: Charles Lindbergh, Flying Cross
The accomplishments of Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart may not seem like much by today's standards, but for their time, they were quite the heroes! This site documents Charles Lindbergh's award of the Flying Cross for his...
Starfall
Starfall: Things That Can Go
This interactive nonfiction ebook focuses on things that can go. Children can choose to read independently or listen to each sentence read to them.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Engineer a Jetliner
In this interactive lesson, students will experience the engineering design process as an aerospace engineer assigned to design and test an airplane.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Higher and Faster
For this interactive lesson, students will explore the social factors, economic factors and engineering innovations that drive higher and faster commercial flights.
Starfall
Starfall: My First Flight
This is a story of a young girl who rides in an airplane for the first time. Children can read independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
MadSci Network
Mad Scientist Network: How Do Planes Fly Upside Down?
Question and answer regarding the physics principles that apply to a plane flying upside down.
National Academy of Engineering
Greatest Achievements: Airplane
This page provides an overview of the history behind one of the greatest engineering innovations of all time:the airplane. There is also a timeline showing its development.
Michigan Reach Out
Nasa Trc: Flying Wing
In this lesson plan students can make a flying wing and trouble-shoot until the wing glides smoothly.
LM Digital Media
Kids World Fun: All Types of Aircraft [Pdf]
Learn about different types of aircrafts and then draw a picture and write about your favorite.
Other
Plane Writing
This resource contains quotations and information about aviation throughout history.
Other
Easy to Make Paper Airplanes
Have fun making different kinds of flying vehicles. You will learn how to make a paper airplane, helicopter, rocket, blimp, etc.
Other
Symposium Papers: Following the Footstpes of the Wright Brothers
A compilation of symposium papers that have been presented on the Wright Brothers which includes details about their lives, invention, and historic flight.
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute Online: Working Wing
This lesson plan provides a brief demonstration of how airplane wings lift a heavy airplane into the air. This activity would be an excellent example of how science and technology have positively impacted our lives. Prediction and...
New York Times
New York Times: Crossword Puzzle: Transportation
The New York Times Learning Network has developed interactive & printable crossword puzzles. The theme of this one is Transportation.
The Henry Ford
Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village: Wright Brothers
Brief history of the lives and accomplishments of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Includes a chronology of major events from Wilbur's birth in 1867 to Orville's death in 1948.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Where's Everyone Going?
A great resource from the National Museum of American History that shows various modes and uses of transportation in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Merriam-Webster
Merriam Webster: Dictionary Illustration: Airplane
Labeled illustration of the principal parts of an airplane, with callouts for cockpit, rudder, fuselage, etc.
NASA
Nasa: How Things Fly
Easy to read guide from NASA on the basics of flight. Great graphics and some simulations are included.
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Weight | Nasa Online
How does weight affect an airplane? Watch the simulation to find out.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: The Wright Brothers Biography
Interesting biographical information and fun facts about the Wright brothers' first flight.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Lab Activity: Helicopter
The Illinois Institute of Technology lets young scholars investigate the aerodynamics of a helicopter, focusing on the variables which effect the lift, thrust, drag, and weight. Students investigate the effects of aerodynamics on a wide...
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Lab Work: Come Fly With Me
This site by the Illinois Institute of Technology lets students use a vacuum cleaner hose, ping pong balls, straws and other materials to investigate the effect of moving air upon the surfaces which it hits. Principles are applied as...