Students build pinwheel airplanes and balloon rockets to determine which ones fly faster and which fly farther.

Students analyze an article about fight traffic and answer questions.  In this investigative lesson students study flight and fill out a worksheet pertaining to the information that they just learned. 

Pupils examine where energy comes from and how it can be used.  In this solar energy lesson students explore different aspects of the sun. 

Students keep a journal for an intire week recording their observations of the ways aircraft affect society, The students discuss their findings and categorize them into areas such as military, commercial, research, and so on.

Students design and construct a gliding aircraft. They use the Internet as a research tool to gain background information about specific flight principles.

Students explore basic transportation vehicles, specifically air, land, and water vehicles, name six different modes of transportation, identify four different kinds of train cars, and three differences between two different modes of...

Learners complete a set of CD-ROM's to introduce them to the flight program at NASA. In groups, they research a topic related to flight and put their information on a CD-ROM. To end the instructional activity, they share their material...

Learners work together to discover the relationship between the angle of catapults and the flight of different objects. They discover the heavier the object the more force is needed. They examine how engineers use this information to...

Students explore the life of race car driver and physicist Janet Guthrie. In this social studies instructional activity, learners investigate how Janet Guthrie followed her dream of becoming a race car driver. Students complete 7...

Students are introduced to the Air Force Core Values before watching the movie, "Twelve O'Clock High". While watching the movie, they take notes on the leadership qualites of the pilots and the use of the Air Force in World War II. ...

Pupils examine how aerodynamic forces affect the flight of aircraft, animals and sports balls and projectiles (like a javelin or boomerang). They discover the origins of the boomerang and early usage in hunting.

In this ESL instructional activity, students read the given article and its presented vocabulary throughout.  Students respond to 51 short answer, matching, true/false, and fill in the blank questions.    

In this engine technology worksheet, students use a referenced website to complete a scavenger hunt, answering a set of 17 questions. 

In this using infinitives in context worksheet, students read an article containing infinitives, then interactively complete 8 sentences with immediate online feedback.

Students study an article on high speed travel.  In this investigative lesson students students read an article, answer questions then work in groups to calculate problems. 

The airplanes unit begins with a lesson on how airplanes create lift, which involves a discussion of air pressure and how wings use Bernoulli's Principle to change air pressure. Following the lessons on lift, students explore the other...

Through this series of three lessons, students will gain an understanding of the basics of flight. They will learn about the four forces of flight and practice their observation skills through a number of fun experiments. In addition,...

This instructional activity is an exciting conclusion to the airplanes unit that encourages students to think creatively. After a review of the concepts learned, students will design their own flying machine based on their knowledge of...

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.

Improve the design of a very simple aircraft, the whirlybird, and learn about hydrodynamics and biomimicry in this science experiment. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and...

This activity first asks the students to study the patterns of bird flight and understand that four main forces affect the flight abilities of a bird. They will study the shape, feather structure, and resulting differences in the pattern...

Some of the key industries that are thriving in North Carolina include advanced manufacturing, aerospace and aviation, defense, automotive, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, green and sustainable energy, financial services, software and...

This guide to Texas' top nine industries links the reader to articles and other information on each topic.