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Condie
History Education Center Resources
The
Condie History Education Center provides resources and instructional materials
for teachers, pre-service educators, and researchers. The center has the
following videos available for classroom use:
Amelia Earhart
Documents Amelia Earhart's life
David G. McCullough
PBS Video, v. 41, 1993
Flyers in Search of a Dream
Documents
America's pioneering black aviators
Tanya Hart, Phillip Hart, Barbara Barrow-Murray, Bessie Coleman, William
J. Powell, Herbert Julian, James Herman Banning
PBS Video, v. 171, 1998
Lindbergh
Features Charles Lindbergh
Stephen Ives, Ken Burns, and David G. McCullough
PBS Video, v. 21, 1990
Spy in the Sky
Tale of the CIA spy plane shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960
Linda Garman and David G. McCullough
PBS Video, v. 69, 1996
The Wright Stuff
Story about Wilbur and Orville Wright, who reshaped the twentieth
century
Nancy
W. Porter, David G. McCullough, and Garrison Keillor
PBS Video, v. 68, 1996
Louisiana Purchase Museum Shop Resources
Teachers receive a 10% discount every day with their school ID badge.
The following books are excellent classroom resources:
Aviation Legends Paper Airplane Book
Ken Blackburn and Jeff Lammers, Workman Publications, 2001
The City of Flight: The History of Aviation in St.
Louis
James J. Horgan, Patrice Press, 1990
Flight: 100 Years of Aviation
R. G. Grant, DK Publishing, 2007
Kid's Paper Airplane Book
Ken Blackburn and Jeff Lammers, Workman Publications, 1996
Online Lesson
Plans and Activities
The following external links offer free lesson plans and activities for
teachers:
The
Teacher's Guide: Aviation Lessons
This website offers free lesson plans and links to comprehensive thematic
units about flight. Elementary, middle, and high school levels are represented.
PBS's
Chasing the Sun: Lesson Plans
This website offers free lesson plans and resources for aviation-related
topics for middle and high school teachers.
Smithsonian
Institution: Lesson Plans
This website has suggestions and lesson plans about the Wright Brothers,
but it could be adapted for any famous aviator. The website offers links
for elementary, middle, and high school teachers, as well as .pdf links
for student use.
Education
World: Design a Paper Airplane
This website offers a simple lesson plan on designing paper airplanes.
Build
the Best Paper Airplane in the World Activity
This website offers instructions and photographs to build a paper airplane.
Lesson Plans
The following lesson plans
were developed by educators at the Missouri Historical Society and are
downloadable for teachers:
Innovators
in Aviation
Subjects Covered: Language Arts, History, and Technology
Grade Range: 6-8
Learning Objectives: Students will have the opportunity to research and
write about a person in public life whom they feel is an aviation innovator.
They will also have the opportunity to make a class presentation about
their selected aviation innovator.
Debates
in Aviation
Subjects Covered: Civics and Economics
Grade Range: 9-12
Learning Objectives: Students will have the opportunity to understand
the relationship of economic factors and how they shape public policy
as it relates to the aviation industry, and they will be able to debate
a current topic relating to the aviation industry.
The
Write Stuff
Subjects Covered: Language Arts
Grade Range: 9-12
Learning Objectives: Students will have the opportunity to use their descriptive
writing skills to create a first-person essay.
Aviation Activities
The following activities were developed
by educators at the Missouri Historical Society for teacher and parent
use.
Connect-the-Dot
Aviation Activity
This activity features 24 connect-the-dot aircraft pages, starting with
the earliest flight accomplishments and ending with the most recent. In
addition, each page contains the history of the aircraft.
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