Students explore the opportunity to educate others. For this response to terrorism lesson, students explore 12 service learning opportunities that they may choose to implement in order to take positive action in response to terrorism.

Students watch a video and participate in discussion about test pilot, astronaut, senator, and hero-John Glenn.

Students use their visualizing and interpreting skills to produce original writings and artwork.

Students create their own Chinese tangrams using in-class direction and prior knowledge in this two-day lesson for the early elementary classroom. Chinese toys are also explored.

In this English instructional activity, students read "Live Earth Rocks 2 Billion Worldwide," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the...

The Library of Congress has opened its vast resources and created an exhibition commemorating the centennial of flight. The library uses "some of its rarest and most significant materials," to present this aviation history exhibit. Be...

The Library of Congress has opened its vast resources and created an exhibition commemorating the centennial of flight. The Library uses "Some of its rarest and most significant materials," to present this beautiful website. Be sure to...

How did we learn to fly? Resource takes users back through time to discover where the history of flight all started. Offers links to games, art and stories as well as activities.

This Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum site tells the history of fight with an easy to use timeline. Also, find out about specific flights in the list of links.

Entry portal to NASA's site on the background and history of the Space Shuttle.

From hot-air balloons floating over Paris to a dirigible crashing over New Jersey, here are some of the biggest moments of aviation history. Below is a timeline of humans' obsession with flight, from da Vinci to drones. Fasten your...

Learn more about the first "100 Years of Flight" when you explore this article. It features resources, historical background knowledge and more.

Three interactives in an online exhibition about the Wright Brothers. The first is an engineering activity on the forces of flight, and is accompanied by a lesson plan for Grades 6-8. The second is a gallery of original artifacts related...

The Museum of Flight collects and exhibits historically significant artifacts of air and space travel.

A history of transportation technologies, and the individuals who led the way in developing and advancing new modes of transportation.

Find information on the many women who became well known for their part in aviation history. Click on one of the drop down menus on the left to find a name, then click on the name to see a short description of the woman and her...

Webisode 11 - Safety for Democracy. The history of the United States is presented in a series of webisodes, within each are a number of segments.Included are links to lesson plans, teacher guides, resources, activities, and tools.

A good essay on the development of the airline industry in the United States as a result of World War I. Many companies worked on airplane design, but few survived after the war.

Discover the history of the first airplanes and flying machines, and how the Wright brothers constructed their first successful airplane.

An excellent article about how Orville and Wilbur Wright's interest in flight developed and led to the first airplane flight.

The world's largest collection of Amelia Earhart papers, memorabilia and artifacts.

This comprehensive and informative site looks at the history and principles of flight.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history took place when four commercial airliners were hijacked by members of the Islamic extremist group al Qaeda. The fourth hijacked plane, United Airlines...

A site that chronicles the life of Octave Chanute, an aeronautical engineer involved in flight before the Wright brothers.