Flight 

Making Paper Airplanes -

             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 free 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

           Paper Airplanes - http://www.bestpaperairplanes.com/

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

        Gander Academy's Paper Airplanes page - http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/paper.htm

           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

           Using paper airplanes to learn about variables - http://www.col-ed.org/cur/sci/sci132.txt
 

  Principles of Flight Level 1 - http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/princ1.htm

             Principles of Flight from Gander Academy -  http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/flightsc.htm
             Simple flight information from Dragonfly - http://www.muohio.edu/Dragonfly/flight/index.htmlx
             Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics - http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/bga.html
             Interactive site Force on a Wing -
               http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=cResource.dspDetail&ResourceID=24

            
What is Aeronautics? - http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/background/

 First Flight Society - Famous people in aviation plus the Wright Brothers
              http://www.firstflight.org/  

  Wright Brothers: 
 
       Time Magazine  http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/wright.html
         Gander Academy http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/wright.htm
         Photographs http://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/quicklinks/wright_brothers/

         The Wright Stuff from PBS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wright/
         How We Made the First Flight http://www.aero-web.org/history/wright/wright.htm
         Reliving the Wright Way
http://wright.nasa.gov/
         The Wright Brothers from the Franklin Institute http://sln.fi.edu/wright/
        
Centennial of Flight for Kids http://centennialofflight.gov/user/kids.htm
            Centennial of Flight for Educators
http://centennialofflight.gov/user/edu.htm

 Classroom Activities:
        
  Wright Flyer Data Lesson Plans Grades 5-8 -
             http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/projects/aero/centennial/ed.html#wright
          Centennial of Flight Project Sampler -
             http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/projects/aero/centennial/sampler.html#introduction
          The Wright Brothers (from NASA) -
            
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/5-8/features/F_Learning_to_Fly.html

          Web Quest for Fourth Graders - 
             http://cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/fellows/Hammond/WebQuest/kkhindex.html

                
            Free Flight Testing in the Classroom - http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow2/oct98/freeflighttest.html
          Paper Airplane Science - http://www.cyberbee.com/paper.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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