Flight

Biography of Wilber and Orville Wright, comparison study of flights, forces of flight explained. activities to make and test your own plane. Lesson plans and hands-on activities outlined.

Aeronautical Engineering Collection including: educational resources related to the collection, graphics outlining their achievements.

• Interactive experiments
• Classroom Activities - 2 page pdf file
• Who were Wilbur and Orville?
• Inventing a flying machine
• The Aeriel age begins

• History of Flight
• Lesson Plans
• Dynamics of Flight - flight principles explained

A PowerPoint presentation of the explanation of Flight: Forces of Flight, Tour of the Basics, Virtual Flying, Fuselage, Airfoils, Wing Shape, Propulsion, Experimental.

• Applying flying
• Pioneer Flight
• Design Department - design your own airplane

Lesson plans for hand-on activities.

National Air and Space Museum

• Animal Flight
• Balloon Flight
• Can You Fly?
• Airplanes
• Spacecraft
• Air and Air Pressure
• Science Activities
• Resource Center - science activities and book lists

• The Atmosphere
• The Jet Stream
• Take a Virtual Balloon Flight

Teacher's Resource Guide
Modules are listed by three levels of difficulty.

• History of Aeronautics
• Aerospace Education and Careers
• Principles of Aeronautics

Your virtual flying school.

Classroom activities with assessment.

• Principles of Aeronautics  Select a reading level (or listen) and learn about: Mythology, History, Atmosphere, Vehicles, Propulsion, structures, and controls

Teacher's guide and webquest.

• Amelia Earhart - Biography
• Amelia Earhart Museum
• The Official Amelia Earhart Web Site

Travel with this grade five class as they learn about:

• Airplanes and how they fly
• Flight planning and navigation (math)
• Weather and climate along our route
• Geography and terrain along our route
• How to access and update our web site
  How to use e-mail
• Things of interest at our destination, as well as along our route.

Printable patterns and directions for paper airplanes. Paper Airplane Aerodynamics explained.

• Build a simple airplane
• Overview of aerodynamics ppt Inculdes experiments
• Paper Plane Experiments ppt

Online lessons/tutorials.

• Topic 1: Alberta's Aviation History
• Topic 2: The Air Out There
• Topic 3: Airplanes
• Topic 4: Helicopters
• Topic 5: Gliders