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NASA Aeronautics and Educational Links

 

An Educator's Guide with Activities in Science,Mathematics, and Technology Education

http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/trc/k4guide/index.html - Drydent Flight Research Center -K-4 Aeronautics Activities

Educator Resource Center Network (ERCN) - http://www.ercn.nasa.gov

The ERCNs provide educators with inservice and preservice training, demonstrations, and access to NASA instructional products. http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Educator.Focus/Articles/009_ERC/
This site explains was is available at the Educator Resource Centers.

Educational Resources - http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/.index.html

Educational materials and resources. Learn more about the exciting world of aerospace education by browsing this list of aerospace resources.

How Things Fly - http://www.aero.hq.nasa.gov/edu/index.html

An animated show that describes what is air and what are the four forces.

NASA CONNECT - http://connect.larc.nasa.gov/

Produced by NASA Langley Research Center’s Office of Education, NASA CONNECT is an annual series of FREE, 30 minute, standards-based, instructional programs designed to enhance the teaching of math, science and technology concepts in grades 5-8. An educator’s guide describing a hands-on activity and a web activity accompanies each NASA CONNECT program. The interactive activities reinforce and extend the objectives presented in the video and establish a connection between the math, science and technology concepts taught in the classroom and the math, science and technology used everyday by NASA researchers.

NASA Connect Aircraft Design Workshop - http://connect.larc.nasa.gov/activities/adw/welcome.html

Try your hand at the design of a 200 passenger airliner, flying from Washington D.C. to the destinations of your choice.

NASA CORE - http://core.nasa.gov/

NASA’s Central Operation of Resources for Educators (CORE) was established for the national and international distribution of NASA-produced educational materials in audiovisual format.

NASA Kids - http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/

The Airplanes section of NASA Kids has many online categories of aeronautics information. Here are just a few of them:

See How it Flies, Wind Tunnels, Careers in Aeronautics, What is Aeronautics, How We design Planes, The K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook

 

NASA TV - http://spacelink.nasa.gov/NASA.News/NASA.Television.Schedules/.index.html

The mission of NASA Television is to provide the access through television to the aeronautics and space program

Regimes of Flight - http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/events/regimes/

Here you can learn about flight at different speeds!

Re- Living the Wright Way http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/Wright/

A look at the way the Wright Brothers worked to be successful with the first flight

Spacelink Educational Links Page - http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Educational.Services/

An Aeronautics and Space Resource for Education - many NASA programs, educational links and resources can be found here. The Spacelink Search program allows provides a virtual library of electronic education resources

NASA Glenn Learning Technologies Project - http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/

Beginner's Guide to Aeronautics - http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/

Aeronautics Education Links

The following sites are not sponsored by NASA.

 

Smithsonian Air and Space Museum - http://www.nasm.edu/

The Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum (NASM) maintains the largest collection of historic air and spacecraft in the world. It is also a vital center for research into the history, science, and technology of aviation and space flight

How We Made the First Flight - Orville Wright- http://www.aero-web.org/history/wright/wright.htm

Pictures and text from the Book written by Orville Wright.

InfoUse Plane Math Activities

http://www.planemath.com/activities/sharedresources/planemathhdr.jpg

This site has some math based games to teach about aeronautics.

Phoenix Airport Kid's Corner

http://www.phxskyharbor.com/kids/index.html

An interactive site with games and educational projects for younger kids.

Women in Aviation Resource Center - http://www.aircruise.com/wia/

Learn how women have been active in the entire flying history.

 

Bibliography of Books and Educational Links

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