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Plane Writing
This resource contains quotations and information about aviation throughout history.
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Ace Pilots: Billy Bishop
A biography on one of the most successful and notorious of WWI flying Aces. Quotes are included here.
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Plane Geometry
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is an introduction or review lesson on points, lines, planes and angles using some of the tools for Activstudio 2.
Free Math Help
Free Math Help: How to Find the Limit
The resource explores basic terms used in geometry. The tutorial defines a point, line, and plane. Examples are included.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Basic Geometry Vocabulary
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is an introduction to geometry vocabulary and elementary geometric figures. Activities ask students to match vocabulary and definitions and label figures. Assessment questions follow.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Geometry Plane Figures
[Free Registration/Login Required] The teacher will use this lesson plan flipchart to review geometry plane figures.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Graphing Coordinates
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn step by step how to graph coordinates on a coordinate plane.
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Lesson Plan Activities: Amelia Earhart and Airplanes
This site features several activity ideas and activities on Amelia Earhart and airplanes for young learners.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Plane
The resource investigates a plane. Examples and definitions are included.
Treehut
Suzy's World: Aerodynamics
Use this fact sheet to find out what makes things fly with this fact sheet on aerodynamics.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Nets
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, students explore geometric sense by interacting with plane diagrams that create a three-dimensional shape.
Cool Math
Coolmath: Intro to Graphing the Cartesian (Rectangular) Coordinate System
A quick tutorial on the basics of the Cartesian (rectangular) coordinate system.
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.
The Franklin Institute
Spotlighting Simple Machines
Simple machines such as inclined planes in wedges and screws are explained.
Integrated Publishing
Plane Figures
This site describes lines and angles "as found in various plane (flat) geometric figures.".
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Plane
Learn about planes with this useful reference guide. Provides a detailed definition and examples that enhance further explanation. Includes links to related topics.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Three Dimensional Plane Diagrams
This site gives a student a tutorial on how to draw various planes. The site includes information on drawing intersecting planes, parallel planes, perpendicular planes, and a line intersecting two parallel planes.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Math to Build On: Crossing & Parallel Lines
A definition of parallel lines that draws a comparison to planes and provides drawings for examples.
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...
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Geometric Optics
This site provides a very brief definition to geometric optics, and includes links to related information.
Curated OER
Displaymath18
Contains a lesson and practice exercises about complex numbers in a complex plane.