Wright Brothers
Links
100 Years of
Flight
http://www.time.com/time/2003/flight/
TIME Magazine commemorates the centennial of powered flight
Flights of
Inspiration
http://sln.fi.edu/flights/index.html
This website looks at the challenge of flight, from the Wright
Brothers' first flight to the transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown
K-8 Aeronautics
http://wings.avkids.com/
This site, developed in cooperation with NASA, offers an attractively
designed web curriculum for the study of aeronautics. There are a
variety of lessons, resources, and activities, as well as lesson plans
for use by teachers.
Lift Off! Into
the Classroom
http://www.aviationnow.com/content/ncof/ncflift.htm
Lesson collection on the history and principles of flight. Contains
more than a dozen lessons each on topics that include astronomy/space,
forces/motion, life in flight, and weather.
Introduction to
Aeronautics
http://www.ueet.nasa.gov/StudentSite/index.html
This NASA site offers a nice upper elementary-level introduction to
aeronautics and airplane design. It includes sections on history,
aircraft components, and propulsion systems.
Milestones of
Flight
http://www.nasm.edu/galleries/gal100/gal100.html
Timeline of the major "firsts" in aviation and space history.
Wright Brothers
Photographs
http://outerbanks.com/wrightbrothers/wrightlc.htm
A collection of digital images from Wright State University that
provides thorough coverage of the Wrights' early work.
Re-living the
Wright Way
http://wright.nasa.gov/
NASA site commemorating the 100th anniversary of flight. Includes
activities, simulations, webcasts, and more.
Celebrate the
Centennial of Flight
http://www.fi.edu/wright/
Historical artifacts, educational resources and more.
Wright Brothers
Theme Page
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/wright.htm
Includes a photo history, biographical information, teacher resources,
and more.
Wright Brothers
Flying Machine
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wright/
Relive the engineering challenges that two bicycle makers had to
overcome to become first in flight.
America's
Story: First Flight
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/progress/jb_progress_flight_1.html
Read Wilbur Wright's letter to engineer Octave Chanute concerning the
Wright brothers' aviation experiments.
Wright Brothers
Online Museum
http://www.first-to-fly.com/
An online museum of the Wright Brothers, including a biography of
Wilbur and Orville Wright and the history of the invention of the
airplane and early aviation.
Paper...Airplanes
http://sln.fi.edu/qa98/attic11/index.html
Notebooks preserved by the Franklin Museum containing the original data
of Orville and Wilbur Wright. Includes pictures of scraps of paper used
to chart their data.
Webquests
http://aerospace.nasa.gov/edu/3quest.html
http://its.guilford.k12.nc.us/webquests/flight/flight.htm
http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webq/webq85/
http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webq/webq165/index.htm
http://cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/fellows/Hammond/WebQuest/kkhindex.html