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Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Wright Brothers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This has a variety of vocabulary puzzles and activities using 31 vocabulary words pertaining to the Wright Brothers. It also offers an extensive vocabulary word list for aviation and airplanes.
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Lesson Plan
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Stories of the Wrights' Flights

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan has students read primary materials from the Smithsonian collection written by the Wright brothers, and compare and contrast them to secondary sources, such as newspaper stories from the next day. There is background...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Balsa Glider Competition

For Teachers 5th - 7th
The purpose of this activity is to bring together the students' knowledge of engineering and airplanes and the creation of a glider model to determine how each modification affects the flight. The students will use a design procedure...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: May the Force Be With You: Weight

For Teachers 5th - 7th
The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand the relationship between the mass and the weight of an object. Students will study the properties of common materials and why airplanes use specific materials.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Let's Calculate Flight!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars will use stop watches to help understand elapsed time when they fly paper airplanes through the air. Students will then move on to using clocks. Young scholars will work out elapsed time word problems using made up flight...
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Handout
US Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Aircraft Pilots and Flight Engineers

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a general overview on the job of a pilot. It includes the Nature of the work, Working conditions, Employment, Training, job outlook, earnings, related occupations, and additional sources of informations.
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Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Air and Space Museum: Pioneers of Flight: Amelia Earhart

For Students 9th - 10th
Illustrated essay on the pioneering step taken by Amelia Earhart when she became, in 1932, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
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PPT
PBS

Bombers of World War Ii: Last Flight of Bomber 31

For Students 9th - 10th
Website that chronicles the story of the search for remains of Bomber 31 that went down in Kamchatka during World War II. There is also a slide show and descriptions of several World War II bombers.
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Article
DOGO Media

Dogo News: Week of 8 11 14: Modern Day Amelia Earhart Circumnavigates the Globe!

For Students 3rd - 8th
Find out about Amelia Rose Earhart, the namesake of the 1930's pilot, and her successful flight around the planet.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Supersonic Dream

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Examine how fuel use affects the mass of different planes during flight. This lesson teaches students how to determine the per person fuel cost of a transatlantic flight for seven airplanes, and display the results on a bar graph. Three...
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Handout
NASA

Nasa: Enterprise (Ov 101)

For Students 9th - 10th
Background on the first shuttle flights in 1977.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Machine: Airplane

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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Lesson Plan
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: Lesson Plan: Black Wings: American Pioneer Aviators

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
With this resource, teachers can select the most appropriate academic level and download a lesson plan that contains images, Word documents and PDF resources for teaching about the history of black Americans in aviation. Excellent...
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Lesson Plan
Smithsonian Institution

National Air and Space Museum: Wright Brothers: Embracing the Impossible [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th - 8th
In this lesson, students explore primary resources to see what people who lived in the early age of flight felt about this innovation. They then compare that response to that towards an invention of today.
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Handout
Oklahoma Historical Society

Oklahoma State: Encyclopedia: Wiley Post

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the early life and aviation career of Wiley Post, who set a world record for flying around the planet.
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Lesson Plan
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese Navigational Vectors

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this project, students use real time data to learn how pilots navigate when they fly. Students go through a series of lessons on vectors, weather maps and flight tracking, then take a pilot's test where they apply what they have...
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Website
Other

Ken Blackburn: Paper Airplanes

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on paper airplane designs, history, and contests. Click on "Paper Airplane Aerodynamics" for an analysis of the world record holding paper airplane design.
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Handout
NASA

Nasa: Astronaut Biography:john Glenn

For Students 9th - 10th
Extensive biographical information with personal data, education, special honors, aviation experience, NASA experience and space flight experience.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Amelia Earhart: Aviator, Record Breaker, and Activist

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Through two primary source activities and a short video, students will learn about Earhart's passion for flying and determination to succeed as a female aviator.
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Website
Other

Plane Writing

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource contains quotations and information about aviation throughout history.
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Handout
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: The Wright Brothers Biography

For Students 2nd - 8th
Interesting biographical information and fun facts about the Wright brothers' first flight.
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Website
Other

Uscfc: Jack Northrop and the Northrop Corporation

For Students 9th - 10th
A biographical site about the man responsible for designing the sleek Vega that carried pilots on record-setting flights and for designing planes with a stressed skin over an internal frame.
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Website
MadSci Network

Mad Scientist Network: How Do Planes Fly Upside Down?

For Students 9th - 10th
Question and answer regarding the physics principles that apply to a plane flying upside down.
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Charles Lindbergh

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive summary with interesting facts about Charles Lindbergh and the first Transatlantic Solo Flight.

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