Nova Wright Brothers’ Flying Machine
Articles and Activities
The Magic School Bus – How Do Airplanes Fly? episode
How do Airplanes work? video from Brain Candy – includes easy to understand descriptions of different airplane parts.
Library books used in this unit
The Wright Brothers by Andrew Santella
The Wright Brothers: Heroes of Flight by Carin T Ford (Famous Inventors series)
Stealing Air by Trent Reedy
You Wouldn’t Want to be on the First Flying Machine by Ian Graham
You Can Draw Planes
How Airplanes Work by Paul Ohmann
The Wright Brothers biographies were used for reading/comprehension of non-fiction text. Students were also asked to pick 5 events from the Wright Brothers lives and create a timeline from those events.
** Note – This post has been updated because so many of the original resources are no longer available.