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THE FLIGHT PLATFORM

For Teachers All
Pupils examine forces that effect flight.  In this flight lesson students answer questions that are asked of them and the ones that they ask themselves. 
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Celebrating A Century of Flight

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Pupils investigate the Wright Brothers. They complete an online Webquest, explore various websites, use a flight simulator, answer discussion questions, and locate newspaper articles on the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first...
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Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Alone Together

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students discover what the lives of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh were really like after watching a Biography movie about them.
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John J. Montgomery: Controlling flight

For Teachers K - 12th
Students research the history of aviation while looking at how gliders and airplanes fly. This lesson is the perfect way to intertwine Science and History. It has variations for all grade levels K-12.
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New Breed of Robots Takes War To the Next Level

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students study an article and answer questions.  In this exploring robots instructional activity students read an article on military robots and answer questions. 
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Safety Up in the Air

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the controversy over a bill giving pilots the option to become armed federal law enforcement officers. They brainstorm other possible security measures for airplanes and airports.
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The Great Paper Airplane Factory

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students investigate the economics of starting a business in this series of lessons. They role play parts of a business organization that sells paper airplanes making decisions based on calculations to make the most profitable organization.
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Child Labor

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students examine how how groups and institutions work to meet individual needs and promote the common good, and identify examples of where they fail to do so. They describe how workers with specialized jobs and the ways in which they...
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Every Day Edit - The Concorde

For Students 3rd - 8th
For this everyday editing activity, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the supersonic Concorde aircraft. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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The Ultimate Field Trip

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students view a video to understand the set-up of the shuttle aircraft. In this shuttle instructional activity, students recognize the functions of parts of the space ship and why they are important. Students research the shuttle and...
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Parachutes

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students make and observe the flight of simple parachutes. In this parachute lesson, students listen to Henry M. Holden's, Fire-Fighting Aircraft and Smoke Jumpers. They make parachutes out of plastic bags, tape, and strings before...
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Trig Applications

For Students 9th - 12th
For this trig applications worksheet, students solve 6 word problems about trigonometry.  Students determine wind speed, angle of elevation and depression, and speed of airplanes using trigonometric functions.
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Airplane Mathematics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The history of aerodynamics is rich with experimentation and international collaboration. Author Joyce Bryant relays this dynamic past and provides math word problems using the formula of lift, the force that makes airplanes fly. She...
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Aeroplane Race

For Students 1st - 2nd
Review ordinal numbers using this worksheet. Learners identify the position of a series of airplanes using ordinal numbers. This is a quick and easy way to review this concept. 
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Angle Measurement and the AD-1 Aircraft

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students represent and solve problems using geometric models and apply geometric properties and relationships. They also practice constructing and measuring angles. By constructing, drawing, visualizing, and comparing geometric figures...
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How Do Airplanes Stay off the Ground?

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students use balloons and string to duplicate Bernoulli's Principle of wing shape and its affect on liftoff.
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Flying the Friendly Skies

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate aerodynamics by comparing and contrasting the flight of two gliders. They make prediction and observation charts and test a variety of hypotheses using paper gliders.
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What Makes Airplanes Fly . . . Why Me

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students investigate the historical development of human attempts to fly and the practice of keeping recorded data for historical reasons.
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Flight Unit Culminating Activities

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in a variety of culminating activities surrounding a unit on flight. They design and test a plane at an interactive website and then write a paragraph explaining what the qualifications are for their ideal airplane...
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Wright Brothers Centennial: Impact of Technological Advance

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders examine the impact of powered flight on the North Carolina coast. After reading news articles, they explain how the first flight affected community pride. They develop a hypothesis about the long-term economic impacts to...
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Airplane Numbers

For Teachers K
In this tracing numbers worksheet, students practice their number recognition by matching the numbers on the plane to the number words on the clouds.
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Weapons of War

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners discuss how American and Great Britian attacked Afghanistan after September 11. They analyze different types of aircraft, missiles, and munitiions used in the attacks in Afghanistan.
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Supersonic Dream

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars explore how fuel use affects the mass of different planes during flight and graph their results. They determine the per person fuel cost of a transatlantic flight for seven airplanes
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Wind Tunnel

For Teachers K - 12th
Students examine how wind tunnels are used for research and development.  In this aerodynamics lesson students are given instructions on how to develop different types of wind tunnel.

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