Air Travel Lesson Plans & Worksheets Reviewed by Teachers

Smithsonian Institution

National Air and Space Museum: America by Air: Early Commercial Aviation

For Students 9th - 10th

Commercial airlines took flight soon after the Wright brothers' famous first flights. Read about how the U.S. government encouraged the development of air travel.

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Smithsonian Institution

National Air and Space Museum: Exploring the Planets: Tools of Exploration

For Students 9th - 10th

Part of the National Air and Space Museum's online exhibition about Exploring Planets, this describes and gives visuals of telescopes, probes and fly-by aircrafts, orbiters, and landers as current methods for earth and airborne...

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Teach Engineering: Dangerous Air

For Teachers 3rd - 8th

By tracing the movement of radiation released during an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, students see how air pollution, like particulate matter, can become a global issue.

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National Air and Space Museum: Exploring the Planets: Early Discovery

For Students 9th - 10th

This section of the exhibition gives the history of the discovery and study of space starting with the Greeks and Romans through to the early 1900's.

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Teach Engineering: By Land, Sea or Air

For Teachers 6th - 8th

In this lesson, students learn that navigational techniques change when people travel to different places - land, sea, air and in space. For example, an explorer traveling by land uses different methods of navigation than a sailor or an...

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