Celebrating 100 Years of Flight

Aspiring aeronautical engineers demonstrate different forces as they construct and test paper airplanes. This lesson plan links you to a website that models the most effective paper airplane design, an animation describing the forces...

What is a Leap Year and why do we have it? Find out with this Leap Day/Leap Year response to reading worksheet in which scholars read a short passage and use their new-found knowledge to answer five questions with short answers. 

In these making inferences worksheets, 5th graders read the cover story and answer the reporter questions about the first flight for Orville and Wilbur Wright. Students answer 8 questions. Students then use articles from Time for Kids...

Students investigate Bernoulli's principle of air pressure and how it relates to the lift of an airplane. Students identify various Aeronautical vocabulary terms. Students construct a paper glider and experiment with the control surfaces...

Students explain basic principles of aeronautics such as gravity and lift. For this How Things Fly lesson, students visit the interactive, hands-on How Things Fly gallery at the Smithsonian. Students perform three experiments that...

After a year of PBS Eons videos, viewers raised some excellent points and questions. The hosts highlight the most common including classification of animals, when a new eon starts, how to pronounce scientific terms, and many other...

Participate in the 100th anniversary of the first flight. In groups, learners use the internet to research the roles the Wright Brothers and Amelia Earhart played in promoting the use of flight. They use the information to write and...

Students study the history of flight of the past one hundred years, focusing on the invention of the airplane, the introduction of women pilots and the space race. They conduct research and then write and publish a "100 Years of Flight"...

Learners practice reading comprehension, note taking and writing skills. For this literacy and writing lesson, students read about the invention of airplanes, women pilots and the space race before writing their own news article on "100...

Learners research a topic about aerospace. They write a script using notes from their research. They download pictures from the Internet. They create an iMovie and present it to the class.