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How People Learned to Fly, by Hodgkins
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Ages: 3 - 7
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This video includes text, narration, and images to compliment the book How People Learned to Fly by Fran Hodgkins and True Kelley. The book is listed in the suggested reading material on the corestandards.org website for grades K-1 under read-aloud ...informational text. (05:47)
Sample performance tasks for this story include:
Students (with prompting and support from the teacher) describe the connection between drag and flying in Fran Hodgkins and True Kelley’s How People Learned to Fly by performing the “arm spinning” experiment described in the text. [RI.K.3]
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September 26, 2011 at 10:39 AM
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Ages: 4 - 13
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These are four short clips of computer generated first flights of the Wright Brothers. The four videos show the first four attempts at flight. Together, they take about (2:30) to watch.
February 22, 2012 at 02:07 PM
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Ages: 5 - 9
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This is a short video about the beginnings of the Wright Brother's quest for flight. It is animated and shows their early idea of modeling gliders like birds' wings. (02:21)
February 22, 2012 at 01:53 PM
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Ages: 5 - 18
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This is vintage footage of one of the first filmed flights of the Wright Brothers. It is shot around 1908-09 in France according to the Director of the Discovery of Flight Foundation. There is no sound added. (02:17)
February 22, 2012 at 02:16 PM
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Ages: 5 - 18
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In this informative video from Discovery, students can learn about the first petrol or gasoline engines that were used in the first airplanes. It contains technical terms about the engines that might be too advanced for younger learners, so teacher...s should emphasize the impact and significance of the engines as opposed to the details. The video also contains good historical information about early aviation history. (02:41)
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July 31, 2012 at 08:33 AM
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Ages: 6 - 18
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In this clip, aviation historians Michael Goc & Robert Wylie tell the story of John Schwister's flight in 1911. This was Wisconsin's contribution to the earliest aviation in our country. (01:46)
July 31, 2012 at 08:16 AM
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