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Stories of the Wrights' Flight Lesson PlanStories of the Wrights' Flight Lesson Plan
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Stories of the Wrights' Flight

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Pupils examine and compare primary and secondary source accounts of the Wright brothers' first flights on December 17, 1903.

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first flight, wright brothers, social studies
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4th - 12th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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