DAILY WARM-UPS
Develop students' reading skills with this printable passage of historical fiction and comprehension questions about the…
WORKSHEETS
In this printable daily warm-up, students read a nonfiction passage on the invention of the airplane and answer reading…
Share the story of Amelia Earhart's achievements with your students, and assign the related activities as a way of…
In this printable daily warm-up, students read a passage of historical fiction about Orville and Wilbur Wright and…
Interesting facts and fun activities related to Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific. This…
Employ a printable reading activity that helps build skills in noun recognition.
Challenge your class with a creative writing activity that has students imagine they are travelling by sea and by air.
This timeline details the important "firsts" in the field of aviation, including the first hot air balloon flight, the…
Throughout history, people have been fascinated by the prospect of flight. Leonardo Da Vinci drew diagrams and built…
As students read about airplanes and flight in David Macaulay's Jet Plane: How It Works My Reader: Level 4, use these…
Develop process skills while learning about experimental design and the basic principles of flight.
Have students explore what went into the invention of the helicopter and the jet engine.
Review the milestones in early aviation history with your students. This printable includes a page of nonfiction text…
ACTIVITIES
Students connect the dots to complete the picture.
Students draw a view of the city from the air.
Discuss new innovations in weather forecasting technology, including a plane called an aerosonde, which is designed…
Instructions for building several types of paper airplanes, which will exhibit different characteristics in the air.
Find out why gliders stay aloft despite having no artificial means of propulsion.
Construct a variety of flying saucers to observe how different designs result in different flight characteristics.
Build a basic kite, and then experiment with different modifications to improve its performance.
Students explore the concept of elapsed time by answering questions about a pilot's flight schedule.
Interesting facts and fun activities related to the first hot-air balloon flight.
Interesting facts and fun activities related to the first nonstop flight around the world.
Interesting facts and fun activities related to the German dirigible Hindenburg, which was hit by lightning and…
