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Worksheet
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Remote Control Airplanes

For Students 4th - 5th
In this technology worksheet, students find the words that are related to the concept of remote control airplanes. The answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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K20 LEARN

Airplanes and Airstrips, Part 2

For Teachers 9th Standards
Table the decision to land. Pupils form flight crews by matching up different representations of linear equations. Given a set of coordinates for an airstrip, the crews determine the equation of the line that will position their planes...
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Women In Aviation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this aviation instructional activity, high schoolers take an electronic field trip to the Aviation Museum of Kentucjy. In the process the instructional activity looks at women in aviation history. The focus is upon how they could be...
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10 Great Places to Savor the Wild Blue Yonder

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students discuss developments in aviation.  In this reading comprehension lesson plan, students read an article that discusses ten aviation museums and developments in civil and military aviation.  Students find relationships between...
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The Aerial Age

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students infer America's attitude towards aviation in the early 1900s. In this The Aerial Age lesson plan, students analyze early 1900s literature, music, advertisements, and popular culture in reference to aviation. Students represent...
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Raptors: Senses and Influences

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students compare the traits of humans to raptors.  In this senses and beneficial traits instructional activity students create a newsletter and compare raptors to aircraft. 
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How Things Fly

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explain basic principles of aeronautics such as gravity and lift. In this How Things Fly lesson, students visit the interactive, hands-on How Things Fly gallery at the Smithsonian. Students perform three experiments that...
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Stories of the Wrights' Flights

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine primary sources to understand the work of Wright Brothers. In this aviation history lesson, students study how primary documents and images are analyzed and write essays about the signifcance of primary soures in...
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Celebrating 100 Years of Flight

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students practice reading comprehension, note taking and writing skills. In this literacy and writing lesson plan, students read about the invention of airplanes, women pilots and the space race before writing their own news article on...
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Web Adventure -- Oakland to Chicago Flight

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students develop an awareness of mathematics in a diverse number of careers, then describe three duties of a pilot that require mathematical skills. They increase understanding of interpreting data relationships presented in table format.
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Grade 2 Air Show

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students make paper airplanes and test and retest the distance they can fly. In this paper airplanes lesson plan, students make the planes, make modifications if they need to, test them, record data, and present it to their class.
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Vocabulary Wars

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Young scholars use educational software to improve their spelling retention using a visual approach based on helicopter flight. They research helicopters, play Battleship, or design a creative presentation after they research an aspect...
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Aviation History/Writing and Forensic Science

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
In this aviation lesson, learners research Charles Augustus Lindbergh and other early aviators and their flying machines. They then write a letter to one of the aviators asking questions about the mechanics of flight and their flying...
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Worksheet
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The War in the Air ~ Activity 1-8

For Students 7th - 10th
In this war history activity, students use the Internet to open a file on Air War and use the sort and search tools to respond to 8 questions. Then they create a graph of the total numbers of aircraft produced by the Axis Powers. In...
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Lady of the Sky Amelia Earhart

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore the contributions of Amelia Earhart. In this Amelia Earhart lesson, 8th graders research Internet and print sources to find information about the aviation feats of Amelia Earhart. Students write summaries based on...
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Experimental Flight

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students use experimental procedures to design and test the flight distances of paper airplanes. In this flight experiment lesson plan, students use the experimental science process to design and conduct an investigation to determine if...
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Worksheet
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Help Maggie Rebuild Her Airplane!

For Students 4th - 8th
In this airplane worksheet, students build airplanes out of paper and test their accuracy while flying them. Students build 6 planes and fill out test logs to go with them.
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Activity
Leadership Challenge

Paper Airplanes

For Teachers 7th - 12th
The first activity in this leadership forum asks pairs of participants to design and build a paper airplane and then fly this plane from one partner to the other. The debrief of the activity asks these future leaders to consider how they...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Measuring Rotation: Aircraft Headings

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Measure angles in more than one way. The interactive introduces the concept of measuring angles from 0 to 360 degrees. Scholars explore the relationships between the angle and reference angles along with coterminal angles.
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Principles Of Flight: Wings That Spin

For Teachers K - 1st
Students discover how flight is possible.  In this physics lesson, students investigate the properties of a blimp and gyro-copter, comparing rotating wings and fixed wings of aircraft.  Students create their own model aircraft and...
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Things That Fly

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Pupils locate images of two things that fly on the Internet and print them. They develop graphic organizers to compare and contrast the two images and exhibit the images along with the organizers in a classroom gallery.
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For the Fun of It

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students view pictures of Amelia Earhart and discuss the social and historical context of her life. They read excerpts of Earhart's autobiography "The Fun of It" and analyze her purpose in writing it.
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PPT
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Transportation Then and Now

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Compare and contrast how transportation has changed throughout the years. This image-driven slide show depicts a variety of advances in transportation. Covered wagons, coaches, trolley cars, boats, and bikes are shown as they were in the...
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NASA

The X-1 Paper Glider Kit

For Teachers 5th - 12th
After reading an interesting account of how the X-1 aircraft was designed, built, and utilized, young engineers try their hand at constructing a paper glider version of the airplane. They cut out the plane out of a nicely designed...

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