The Glorious Flight
A biography of the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the Bleriot XI, which in 1909 became the first heavier-than-air machine to fly the English Channel.
Author page
Illustrator Page
The author is also the illustrator.
Go-Alongs:
Online Units and Resources for The Glorious Flight
Scholastic Lesson Plan
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Glorious Flight - Lapbook
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The Glorious Flight lapbook
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Flight Lesson Plans/Flight Thematic Units
From the Teacher'sGuide.com (Y,M)
Go-alongs about France
Ename - "Ename is a unique archaeological site where a fragment of the medieval world has been uncovered and preserved. " (Y, M, O)
French and Family - Unit on French language and culture: "Young children are fascinated, though sometimes a bit frightened, by cultures different from their own. They are also at a stage of development when it's exciting and relatively easy to acquire new vocabulary." (Y)
Little Explorers English-French Picture Dictionary - By Enchanted Learning (Y, M, O, T)
Time Warp Trio Lesson Plans - Look down the page for the link to this PDF lesson plan to go with the books. (Y)
Top picks for children's books on France - (y m)
Go-alongs about England
Castle Builder - Medieval activity; "You are a Medieval Castle Builder living in Wales in the year 1076. You are hired by the Norman Baron William de Clare to build him a fantastic castle in Aberystwyth, Wales. (Y, M, O, T)
Elizabethan England Resources - Also known as the English Renaissance (1558-1603) (Y, M, O, T)
England from the Golden Age to the Glorious Revolution - PDF download from Core Knowledge Grade 5; requires Adobe Acrobat Reader (Y)
Learn about England - From Scholastic.com's Global Trek; learn about England, its people, and the Industrial Revolution (Y, M, O, T)
The Plight of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Revolution in England and Wales - This unique site is full of information and resources to help you learn about women’s history in a global, non- U.S., context. (Y, M, O, T)
Top picks for children's books on England - (y m)
Go-alongs about Inventors
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL - From Garden on Praise (Y,M)
Alexander Graham Bell - From Surfing the Net with Kids (Y,M)
Alexander Graham Bell - From World Almanac for Kids (Y,M)
Alexander Graham Bell - From Kids Zone (Y,M)
Alexander Graham Bell - From CyberSleuth Kids (Y,M)
Edison - From CyberSleuthKids (Y,M)
Edison, Thomas Alva - Google Directory Kids and Teens (Y,M)
George Washington Carver - (Y, M, O, T)
Henry Ford - From cybersleuth-kids.com. An internet search guide for the K-12 student. (Y, M, O, T)
Henry Ford - From Worldalmanacforkids.com - Automobile Production, Labor Problems, Wartime Production, and Other Activities. (Y, M, O, T)
Henry Ford II - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Y, M, O, T)
Internet Scavenger Hunt: Inventors & Inventions - Education World writer Hazel Jobe has created special Internet scavenger hunts that will have your students surfing the best on-line resources for fun facts about some famous and not-so-famous inventors and inventions. (Y, M, O, T)
Invention Dimension - From MIT, this site features an Inventor of the Week with archives, the Inventor's Handbook, Invention Related Links and Resources, and more. (Y, M, O, T)
Inventor's Workshop - "TeachersFirst developed this unit to provide upper elementary and middle school teachers with a set of resources for exploring inventors and inventions." Includes an online inventors unit, a quiz, and a list of inventor/invention resources. (Y,M)
Inventors Hall of Fame - This site has a comprehensive list of all Hall of Fame inductees. Each inventor has a profile, including his or her invention, its impact, and the inventor's bio. (Y, M, O, T)
Inventors/Inventions - long list of resources detailing specific inventors including Leonardo DaVinci, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Graham Bell, Cyrus McCormick, Samuel Morris, Eli Whitney, and more (Y, M, O, T)
Louis Braille Biography - From the American Foundation for the Blind (Y,M)
Louis Braille:A Touch of Genius - From National Braille Press (Y, M, O, T)
Samuel Finley Breese Morse - (Y.M)
Samuel Morse - by World Almanac for Kids (Y,M)
Samuel Morse - From Inventive Genius (Y,M)
TEACHER HERO:LOUIS BRAILLE - From My Hero Project (Y, M, O, T)
The Braille Bug Site - From the American Foundation for the Blind (Y,M)
The Life of Henry Ford - (Y, M, O, T)
The life of Louis Braille - From the Royal National Institute of the Blind (Y, M, O, T)
Thomas Alva Edison - From Surfing the Net with Kids (Y,M)
Thomas Edison - From World Almanac for Kids (Y,M)
Thomas Edison - From Time for Kids (Y,M)
Timeline: Biography of Samuel Morse 1791 - 1872 - from About.com (Y,M)
Go-alongs about Flight
Amelia Earhart's Last Flight - From the Virtual Exploration Society (Y,M)
Amelia Mary Earhart - Famous Pioneers in Iowa's Transportation History (Y, M, O, T)
Anatomy of a Hot-Air Balloon - From the Plano Balloon Festival: About Balloons. (Y, M, O, T)
FAA Aviation Education Kids Pages - Kids Corner is a fun page for all. It includes activities such as coloring books, word puzzles, and experiments. (Y, M, O, T)
FAA Aviation Education Resource Library - Includes listings of Aviation schools for your future pilot! (Y, M, O, T)
Flight Lesson Plans/Flight Thematic Units - From the Teacher'sGuide.com (Y,M)
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)
Jline Paper Airplanes - Several paper airplane models as well as tips and a newsletter. (Y, M, O, T)
Lift Off - This site is an online quiz about lift in plane flight. (Y)
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)
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)