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Fingerprint Card

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students create their own identification card to be used in case of emergencies. In this art lesson, students print important information about themselves on a notecard and make a print of one of their fingers by coloring the...
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THE WRIGHT IDEA!

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Learners learn about the technological development of flight by organizing a presentation on the history of flight.
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Aviation Pioneers

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students research the Wright Brothers historic first flight and design a travel poster asking for volunteers to participate. Write a newspaper account of the first flight and include how the local people may have felt about the Wright...
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Wright Brothers Centennial: Impact of Technological Advance

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders examine the impact of powered flight on the North Carolina coast. After reading news articles, they explain how the first flight affected community pride. They develop a hypothesis about the long-term economic impacts to...
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More Position Words

For Students K - 1st
In this position words worksheet, learners learn spatial terms by drawing a red squirrel traveling up the tree, a gray squirrel going down, a blue bird flying down from the left branch, and a yellow bird flying up from the right branch.
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Language Arts: Women in History

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners read excerpts from Amelia Earhart's autobiography, "The Fun if It," and identify her character traits. To aid visualization of her transatlantic flight, they search books and the Internet for photos related to Earhart's flights....
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Fundamental Terms

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students explore Newton's Laws of Motion and how they apply to flight.
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Social Studies: When in Rome...

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students conduct Internet research on selected countries. They simulate a business trip requiring airplane flights, car rentals, and hotel reservations. They present their virtual trips in written reports after sharing their findings...
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Major Transport Routes 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify different transport routes used in travel and tourism. They research alternate forms of traveling instead of flying. They plan trips to a destination of their choice using alternate transportation methods.
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Body Changes in Space

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students explain the cause of and effects of fluid shift in a microgravity environment. Students identify the effects of microgravity during long duration space flight. Students describe research on cardiovascular effects in microgravity...
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What Makes a Kite Fly?

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders compare the nature of forces of gravity, lift, thrust, and drag. They select proper materials for making a kite and attach a proper tail. Students interpret and summarize the observations made during the flight of the kites.
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Tiger Woods Physics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students comprehend the independence of vertical and horizontal velocity vectors. They calculate height, time of flight and range of projectile objects. Students perform derivation for range of same plane projectile motion. They perform...
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Aerodynamics of a Boomerang

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars 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.
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Migration: A Dangerous Journey

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders pretend as if they're a whooping crane flying north for its migration. They write questions and predictions about what they are doing and what happen.
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Battery Depletion and Piecewise Linear Graphing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students examine a recent flight of Pathfinder. In groups, they use the information to create a table of values showing the battery charge of the space machine. They predict what the charge would be further on in the mission. They use...
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String of Dots

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
You are Wilbur and your partner is Orville.The winner of this game gets to make the first flight in the Wright Flyer. Develop a stratgegy for this one.Make a string of 15 to 30 dots. With a partner take turns crossing them off either...
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Scrambled Letters- Expressing Future Time

For Students 5th - 6th
In this scrambled letters worksheet, students unscramble the letters in 12 words and write the words in the blank spaces. The words will belong to one of these groups: flying, jobs, expressions in business.
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Motion and Gravity

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders make parachutes to learn about gravity and the science process. In this gravity lesson, 3rd graders create parachutes and observe their flight in air. Students discuss wind and gravity for the activity.
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Up, Up and Away with the Montgolfier Balloon

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners construct hot air balloons. In this science activity, students assemble their own balloon using tissue paper and glue. They time the duration of the flight, record data and calculate team averages.
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GRAPH-A-TROSS

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students graph many sets of data from the Albatross Project including, flight distances, flight destinations, time between feedings, weight gain of the baby albatross, hatching and fledging dates
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Science: Let's Fly a Kite!

For Teachers K
Students make observations about the wind and develop predictions to test with kites. The lesson's Language Arts component invloves communication of concepts with peers. On their kite flying day, students discuss how the wind and air...
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Richard Evelyn Byrd: Live from Antarctica

For Teachers K - 12th
Students explore Richard Evelyn Bird and his flights over Antarctica. They conduct an online journey of the Polar Duke to discover where to study penguins, seals, oceans, ice and Antarctica's ozone hole. They create their own Antarctic...
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NASA Word Puzzle

For Students 8th - 9th
In this word puzzle, students identify fifty five words related to NASA in a word puzzle. Examples include Clementine, space flight, throttle up, and rocket plane.
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Japanese Cartoon Maze

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this Japanese cartoon maze instructional activity, students challenge themselves as they take a boy and his flying friend through a difficult maze that requires focus and concentration.

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