Flight

Get lesson plans for teaching your flight unit from Sciencekids.

NASA has complete lesson plans on the "Four Forces of Flight" for grades K-4 and for grades 5-8, including this activity.

The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum has a wealth of educator resources, including How Things Fly, which explores aerodynamics, propulsion, flight dynamics, and more.

PBS Learning Media has a great STEM resource about Flight and the Wright Brothers.  PBS Wright Brothers.

NASA's Engine Technology site (UEET) has a Student Page that includes lesson plans for grades K-8.

With this classroom activity from PBS Kids' Design Squad, students make a sky glider blimp using the design process.

The Exploratorium's Science Explorer has these activities for the budding aircraft designers:

• Hoopster
• Spinning Blimp
• Roto-copter

Teach your students how to make a paper airplane.

Play with different birds' wings in this Airborne Experiment to learn about Bernoulli's Principle and other scientific principles that make flight possible. A great tutorial.

Use the episode from PBS Kids CyberChase to learn more about flight (gliding) and build a Bunny Copter.

NASA has compiled a Beginner's Guide to Aeronautics, a very useful resource to help K-12 teachers with instruction on all things related to flight. You'll also want to check out the accompanying collection of K-12 Aeronautics Classroom Activities.

The Air and Space Museum has a terrific online exhibit about the Wright Brothers.

America By Air is an online exhibit from the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum.

The Franklin Institute offers some unique resources on the Wright Brothers' experiments with airfoils and Wind Tunnel.