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To Infinity and Beyond

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine NASA's next flight commander, Colonel Eileen M. Collins. They explore other extraordinary American women in various fields and create biographies celebrating their achievements.
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TE Lesson: Fighting Back!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the roles of the immune system in keeping the body healthy. They see how engineers contribute to this process by creating antibiotics, and vaccinations. They discuss how an astronauts' immune system may be suppressed...
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Airplanes and Airports: How To Take Off Without Ever Leaving the Ground

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students plan an airport visit. In this Airplanes and Airports lesson plan, students observe the people, activity, and machinery at airports. Then students compare the characteristics of their observations at the airport. Students make...
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Average, Mode, and Median

For Students 5th - 8th
In this average, mode and median worksheet, students learn how to determine each of these values and practice finding all three. They are given a table of different falcon flight speeds and they calculate the average, mode and median for...
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A Bird's Eye View

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss and observe examples of air pollution in order to learn how pollution may affect their daily lives. In this environmental science lesson, students identify dust as a form of pollution and discover how many materials...
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Balloons: Math with the Montgolfier Balloon

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students discover the history of hot air balloons by watching one ascent.  In this physics lesson plan, students utilize a Montgolfier Hot Air Balloon from an earlier lesson plan and record the temperature, rate of ascent and the...
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Blast Off!

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students build their own rockets. In this rocket lesson, students create the highest flying rocket they can powered by effervescent antacid tablets and water in film canisters. They listen to the story How to Build a Rocket by Hazel...
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Labeled Diagrams

For Teachers K Standards
Let's learn about bats! Those flying creatures of the night inspire a lesson about non-fiction books. They start by charting characteristics commonly found in informational texts, specifically charts, diagrams, and labels. They look at...
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Friendly Dragon-Flies

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners listen to a story about, and visualize, fanciful dragons with wings. They create imaginative paper dragons that can fly. Students write fictional stories about the adventures of their flying dragons. They imagine if dragons...
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Nasa's Return To Flight: Testing In

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Pupils explain basic components of the space shuttle stack and the chemical fuel makeup and storage used on the external tank of space shuttle. They discuss findings of Columbia mission accident. and the safety improvements that have...
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Flying with Fractions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers test their knowledge of the Wright Brothers and their aircraft, and compute ratio of two numbers to determine the ratio between wing span and length of aircraft.
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Flying High in Our Imaginations

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars visualize they are any bird they want to be and visually create their surroundings. They share the type of bird they were and the surroundings with their peers. They read a chapter of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's...
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Demonstrate Flight

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students measure the distance and duration of fight .
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Life Without Flight

For Teachers 6th - 9th
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.
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Parabolas in Flight

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers utilize a trajectory formula in order to discover the physics of a thrown ball.  For this physics lesson, students videotape the trajectory of a thrown ball or basketball shot and analyze the action by breaking the...
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Flying High in Ohio

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Pupils use a Venn diagram to explore the similarities and differences between two sets of "Aviation Pioneers." They read age appropriate texts related to the design of the Ohio quarter reverse. They examine the quarter and locate Ohio on...
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Flying High in Math

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders study how real airplanes fly and then they construct models of paper airplanes using design resources for the Internet and their own design. They use meaurement and caluculations in order to help them construct their...
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The Flying Inauguration of the "Sudden President

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students study the inauguration process as well as what the constitution states about who succeeds the President of the US when the office is emergently vacant. They discuss the role of government and the events leading to Lyndon...
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Flying High With Hot Air Balloons!

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders demonstrate an understanding of a narrative story by listening, speaking, reading and writing activities. They create two visual products that reflect the understanding of events, vocabulary, and characters.
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The Flights Of The Phoenix

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students investigate the use of the Phoenix in Japanese and Chinese art while making connections to the use of the Phoenix in the book Fahrenheit 451. This lesson can be adapted for grades 8 through 11 but was originally for 8th grade...
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Flying with Adam Raccoon

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Pupils increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing rereading and decoding strategies , students complete multiple reads of a novel text. With the instructor, they read complete a timed assessment...
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Up Up and Away

For Students 4th - 5th
In this technology learning exercise, students find the words that are related to machines that fly and the answers are found through clicking the link found at the bottom of the page.
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On the Wright Brothers' Flight Path

For Students 7th - 12th
For this airplane worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer by comparing three Wright brothers' airplanes: how were they alike and how were they different.
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Aircraft Trajectory Problem Set

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read text from a NASA Web-based textbook then demonstrate an understanding of the text by using it to complete an activity on aircraft trajectories.

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