10. Flight
This topic on the wickED website contains a wide range of New Zealand curriculum based activities
which involve the science of how things fly, the history of powered flight, and practical activities
involving the making and testing of flying machines.
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/wick_ed/themes/flight.php
40. Aeronautics Classroom Activities
This website provides a variety of classroom activities involving aeronautics which have been
developed by teachers, educators, and NASA engineers and scientists for the NASA Glenn Learning
Technologies Project. Includes topics such as buoyancy, air, lift, and convection activities which are
suitable for students 8-13 years.
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/TRC/Aeronautics/AeronauticActivitiesHome2.htm
50. Celebrate the Centennial of Flight!
This page from the Franklin Institute website has historical information on the 1911 Model B Flyer
with film footage, the Wright Brothers aeronautical engineering collection, instructions to make a
magnus flyer, and further educational resources.
http://www.fi.edu/wright/
60. Dragonfly Magazine
The website Dragonfly supports articles in the magazine of the same name. The 19 topics on this
interactive site for children include monarch butterflies, people and plants, using tools, camouflage,
sports in space, and taking flight. There are links to other sites on the topics, and to activities
including challenges, experiments, surveys, and animal sounds.
http://www.units.muohio.edu/dragonfly/
70. Frisbee
This site provides a brief history of how the frisbee originated, and an explanation of the science
behind how a frisbee flies. Includes lesson plans and links to other curriculum areas.
http://wings.avkids.com/Book/Sports/intermediate/frisbee-01.html
80. Fun and Games with Planes
This U.S. web page for students has activities related to the topic of flight and planes. It includes
links to information about the history of flight, aeroplanes, engines, UEET (ultra efficient engine
technology), aeronautics, and the dynamics of flight.
http://www.ueet.nasa.gov/StudentSite/funandgames.html#planegame
90. How Things Fly
This online exhibition from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum provides information
on how things fly. Includes facts about air, gravity, balloons, birds, aeroplanes, spacecraft, the
Wright brothers, simple experiments, a resource center, and the option to look at real exhibits.
http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal109/NEWHTF/HTF030.HTM
100. How Things Fly
This site, from the National Air and Space Museum, explores and explains phenomena relating to
flight. Includes facts, experiments, artefacts, explanations of physical phenomena, and definitions of
key terminology.
http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal109/NEWHTF/HTF030.HTM
110. How Things Fly: Airplanes
This part of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum website provides scientific
explanations with diagrams at primary school level of the four forces involved in flying airplanes:
lift, weight, thrust, and drag.
http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal109/NEWHTF/HTF500.HTM
130. Paper Airplane Education Resources
This site provides education resources on the basics of flight. There are interactive activities and
experiments that involve constructing paper planes and links to related sites.
http://www.paperplane.org/Education/education.html
140. PlaneMath Enterprises
This website provides interactive mathematics activities related to plane building and design.
Requires Shockwave. lncludes links to information for teachers, parents, and further activities for
students.
http://www.planemath.com/activities/pmenterprises/index.html
150. The Wright Stuff
This website presents a brief account of Wilbur and Orville Wright's lives. Includes a quicktime
movie reinacting their first controlled plane flight, and an audio interview.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wright/glider.html
160. Ultra-efficient Engine Technology - Kids' Page
This website is designed for students and explores aeronautics, the study of flight. The site covers the
history of flight, dynamics of flight, aeroplanes, and engines, and includes activities and games for
students, as well as educational links and lesson plans for teachers.
http://www.ueet.nasa.gov/StudentSite/index.html
170. Try this: Make a boomerang
This web page provides instructions for making a returning boomerang out of cardboard. Includes
tips for flying a boomerang.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/trythis/try11.html
180. Universal Leonardo - Play
This section of the Universal Leonardo website provides interactives that explore some of the
thinking behind Leonardo da Vinci's approach to art. Includes answering questions about the Mona
Lisa to make her smile, creating monsters using parts from animals, writing in mirror image using a
feather, exploring platonic solids, pulleys, flight, perspective, and the flow of liquids and wind. Has
links to more information on da Vinci.
http://www.universalleonardo.org/activitiesSingle.php?id=526
190. Vertebrate Flight
This site from the University of California Museum of Paleontology, provides an overview of flight
in vertebrates. Includes information the physics of flight, gliders and parachuters, the evolution of
flight, the origins of flight, and 'the three solutions to flight'- pterosaurian, avian, and chiropteran
flight.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/flight/enter.html