Aviation
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Amelia Earhart Activities Mini-Unit - Amelia Earhard is garnering quite a bit of attention lately with the release of a new movie about her ambition to fly around the world. EasyFunSchool.com has put together a mini-unit study about her that includes lots of resources about her life and flight in general. (Y, M, O, T)
National Air and Space Museum - Education resources including lessons and PDF posters (T)
History of Flight - How Did We Learn to Fly Like the Birds? (Y)
What is Aeronautics? - From NASA's Ultra Efficient Engine Technology. (Y, M, O, T)
Dynamics of Flight - From NASA's Ultra Efficient Engine Technology. (Y, M, O, T)
Airplanes - From NASA's Ultra Efficient Engine Technology. (Y, M, O, T)
Engines - From NASA's Ultra Efficient Engine Technology. (Y, M, O, T)
Flight Vocabulary - From NASA's Ultra Efficient Engine Technology. (Y, M, O, T)
Flight Fun and Games - From NASA's Ultra Efficient Engine Technology. (Y, M, O, T)
NASA Aeronautics and Educational Links - From NASA's Ultra Efficient Engine Technology. (Y, M, O, T)
Lesson Plans - From NASA's Ultra Efficient Engine Technology. (Y, M, O, T)
Exploratorium Learning Studio - Hot Air Balloons (Y, M, O, T)
Hot Air Balloon - How to make a hot air balloon. (Y)
Balloons - Many links to balloon web sites. (Y)
Hot Air Balloon - Hot air ballooning facts (Y, M, O, T)
BALLOON CRAFT - Template to make a hot air balloon craft. (Y )
Time Warp Trio Topical Lesson Plans - Look down the page for the link to this PDF lesson plan to go with the books. (Y)
Free Aviation Resources - Teachers who use aviation/space education in their classes can favorably influence large numbers of students over a long period of time. And enthusiastic young people tend to have a multiplier effect as they actively share their interest in aviation with family and friends. Aviation activities used in the classroom or for clubs or youth groups can serve as a catalyst to motivate young adults to seek careers in the industry. The teaching resource materials listed here are offered directly by NCAE members. (T)
Remembering the Wright Brother's Historic Flight - "On Dec. 12-17, the nation celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' flight. This event provides teachers with many tools to build integrated lesson plans. To this end, Reach Every Child presents a list of free resources that includes everything from an interactive site where students can fly the first airplane to space resources. (Y, M, O, T)
Flight Lesson Plans/Flight Thematic Units - From the Teacher'sGuide.com (Y,M)
Anatomy of a Hot-Air Balloon - From the Plano Balloon Festival: About Balloons. (Y, M, O, T)
History of Hot-Air Ballooning - It is now more than two hundred years since the first balloon took to the skies. The Montgolfier brothers, two paper makers from the southern French town of Annonay, were intrigued by the way smoke rises above a fire. They decided to capture its lifting powers with small paper and cotton balloons and, while they were mistaken in their faith in the smoke itself (or 'Phlogiston' as it was referred to at the time), they succeeded in creating the world's first hot-air balloon. (Y, M, O, T)
How Hot Air Balloons Work - From How Stuff Works. (Y, M, O, T)
Lift Off - This site is an online quiz about lift in plane flight. (Y)
Amelia Earhart - From Surfnetkids.com (Y,M)
Amelia Earhart, Young Air Pioneer - Online Resources (Y, M, O, T)
Amelia Mary Earhart - Famous Pioneers in Iowa's Transportation History (Y, M, O, T)
Amelia Earhart Game - Famous Kansas Aviator (Y, M, O, T)
Community Helper The Pilot - Amelia Earhart - From First-school.ws (Y)
Meet A Pioneer Pilot - Amelia Earhart - From Teacher.scholastic.com - Early Years Learning to Fly, Women in Aviation, The WASPs, WW II Experiences, The Ninety-Nines, Remembering Amelia Earhart (Y,M)
Amelia Earhart's Last Flight - From the Virtual Exploration Society (Y,M)
More Paper Airplanes - From Surfing the New with Kids; contains time tested models, one that held the Guinness Book record for time aloft (18.8 seconds), an origami kamikaze water flyer, even a paper airplane hangar (Y, M, O, T)
NASA Human Space Flight - Find space station news, realtime data, unusual issues, and a virtual tour of the international space station (Y, M, O, T)
FAA Aviation Education Resource Library - Includes listings of Aviation schools for your future pilot! (Y, M, O, T)
Aviation Unit - The Minnesota Department of Transportation Mn/DOT Office of Aeronautics (M)
Wright Brothers' First Flight - Students of all ages will be able to examine how our world has changed as a result of the Wright Brothers' first powered flight on December 17, 1903. What possibilities will they be able to imagine for the next one hundred years of flight? (Y, M, O, T)
Aviation Unit Study - Fom easyfunschool.com - You can bring in high-interest, hands-on projects for science and art, biographies of famous flyers and inventors, history with studies of evolution of the airplane, and lots more! (Y,M)
