Flight 

Making Paper Airplanes -
           What Makes Paper Airplanes Fly? - https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/what-makes-paper-airplanes-fly/

           Kool Paper Airplanes - Shuttle, unusual, and simple designs - 
              
http://www.amazingpaperairplanes.com/index.html

           Alex's Paper Airplanes - http://www.paperairplanes.co.uk/

           Airplanes plus NASA downloads and aviation alphabet 
           
 http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/aerosim/LessonHS97/paperairplaneac.html

           Paper Airplanes from the Exploratorium -
             
http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/paper/airplanes.html

           Paper Airplanes Theme Page - lots of links to paper planes
             
http://www.cln.org/themes/paper_airplanes.html

           Fly'N Things - Amazing Paper Airplanes - in color
             
http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/airplanes/index.html

           Joseph Palmer's Paper Airplanes - http://www.josephpalmer.com/planes/Airplane.shtml

           Best Paper Airplane in World from Costa Rica - Best Paper Airplane in World from Costa Rica 
             
http://www.zurqui.co.cr/crinfocus/paper/airplane.html

            Fold 'N Fly - https://www.foldnfly.com/#/1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2

           Using paper airplanes to learn about variables - http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/mnstep/activities/35929.html
                                                              

           PowerPoint Lesson -
https://www.cusd80.com/cms/lib/AZ01001175/Centricity/Domain/8254/9%20Paper%20Airplane%20Lab.pptx

  Principles of Flight - https://learning-center.homesciencetools.com/article/principles-of-flight-science-lesson/
                       http://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/Contexts/Flight/Science-Ideas-and-Concepts/Principles-of-flight
                       https://www.nps.gov/articles/fundamentalsofflight.htm
                       https://sites.google.com/site/feutrill8/home/flight/principles-of-flight

             What is Aeronautics? - http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/UEET/StudentSite/aeronautics.html
            
Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics - http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/airplane/bga.html

  Famous people in aviation - http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=11860
                              https://www.flyingmag.com/photo-gallery/photos/51-heroes-aviation/
                              https://www.thefamouspeople.com/aviation.php
  Wright Brothers: 
         Official website - http://wrightbrothers.info/
         Air and Space Museum - https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/wright-brothers-invention-aerial-age
         Wright Brothers - http://www.wright-brothers.org/
 
                          https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/wright-brothers
                            https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/wright-brothers/online/
                            https://www.biography.com/news/orville-wilbur-wright-brothers-first-flight

         Photographs - https://www.loc.gov/collections/wilbur-and-orville-wright-papers/articles-and-essays/photography-and-the-wright-brothers/
                        https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/wright-brothers?phrase=wright%20brothers&sort=mostpopular

         The Wright Stuff from PBS https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/wright/
         
         Reliving the Wright Way
http://wright.nasa.gov/
         

 Classroom Activities:
           Wright Brothers Lesson Plans - https://www.nps.gov/wrbr/learn/education/classrooms/curriculummaterials.htm
                                           https://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson320.shtml
                                           https://study.com/academy/lesson/wright-brothers-lesson-plan.html
                                           http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/calendar-activities/wright-brothers-made-their-20372.html

            

          Centennial of Flight - https://www.centennialofflight.net/

          The Wright Brothers (from NASA) -
            
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/5-8/features/F_Learning_to_Fly.html
              
          Flight Testing in the Classroom - https://www.teachengineering.org/activities/view/cub_airplanes_lesson06_activity1
                                           https://www.teachengineering.org/lessons/view/cub_airplanes_lesson06
                                           https://www.nsta.org/science-and-children/science-and-children-february-2020/flight-paper-airplanes
                                

          Paper Airplane Science - http://www.cyberbee.com/paper_sites.html

          Aviation for Little Folks -
               
http://web.archive.org/web/20041013003842/http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/On-line.Educational.Activities/Aviation/

          See also Mrs. Mitchell's Hot Air Balloons page http://www.kathimitchell.com/balloons.htm

 

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