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John Burroughs High School in Burbank, Calif. David Vezina had given up a job piloting Learjets to teach kids about aviation. In addition to providing real airplanes to high schools and other interested groups, Build A Plane is working with the National Educational Association, the Wathen Foundation, the FAA, NASA and several key aviation and aerospace organizations to create an aviation-based curricula that teaches science, technology, engineering and math. And for groups that don't have the room or the faculty to construct real aircraft, Build A Plane will soon release a software package and lesson guide that will allow kids to build airplanes virtually.

Lessons and activities for topics including Geospatial Science Projects, Materials Science, Museum of the Earth

These lessons are adapted from Smithsonian in Your Classroom.

LESSON PLANS - A library of fun science experiments to help students understand how the Wrights developed the first powered aircraft. WIND TUNNEL TESTS In 1901, the Wright Brothers conducted wind tunnel tests that helped them learn about lift. With NASA's help, we'll recreate some of those tests. Follow along! COMPUTER SIMULATIONS We're using computers to analyze the Wrights' early wing designs and the 1903 Wright Flyer. What will we learn?

Here I give (and solve) five word problems taken from an aviation math book published in 1943. These word problems would be useful in teaching the concepts of rectangle area (length * width) and unit conversion (from inches to feet, etc.)

Aviation Resource Page Lesson Plans, Worksheets

"The Discovery Center Science Programs address specific State Science Standards and can be applied to a range of grade levels. In each session, the students themselves will be active participants in performing experiments, discovering the reality behind the science and learning how it can be used to impact their own lives. Each of these programs model one 45 minute classroom period of an inquiry-based series of lessons and all use simple, inexpensive and easy to obtain materials."

"Cool Stuff for the Classroom Design Challenge Lessons Online"

"Whether your students are learning new and difficult math concepts or simple, basic ones, switching up the way you teach it to them can be beneficial. It is exciting to see lessons and concepts taught in a new way that is unlike the traditional. If students have access to the Internet, they can be exposed to some great videos that teach them tutorials or serve as a refresher of concepts they have learned in the classroom. "

"The 13th century empiricist Roger Bacon called mathematics "the door and key to the sciences." High-quality lesson plans, games, interactives and video from PBS"

PlaneMath Activities Main Page. You can go directly to a lesson, get some help to get started, check out other great places on the Web, or have your teacher/parent learn how to use this Site. examples - Flight Path: Find the shortest path between 2 cities. Plane Capacity Plane Capacity: How many people can board your plane?

"A mathematician needs functions for the same reason that a builder needs hammers and drills. Tools transform things. So do functions. In fact, mathematicians often refer to them as "transformations" because of this. But instead of wood or steel, functions pound away on numbers and shapes and, sometimes, even on other functions."

"Are graphs just pretty pictures? ACTIVITY 1 To study a number of graphs with the aim of understanding what they can tell one"