FLIGHT

Content Pathfinder

Name: Kerri Pullins

School: I am the District Librarian for Fostoria Schools; this plan is to be used with Carol Wines’ multi-age group at Field Elementary.

Workshop Location: Sylvania Jr. High

Title of Companion Content Pathfinder: Flight

Grade Levels: K - 5

Curriculum Subject Area: Science, math, language, literature, and music

CONTENT INFORMATION (Books, videos, and Internet sites)

Abby Wanted to Fly by Lan Wang. Children’s Art Publication, 1997. Call Number: 400 WAN
Bats: Mammals that Fly by Marlene Sway. Scholastic Library Publishing, 1999. Call Number: 599.4 SWA
The Bermuda Triangle by Jacqueline Laks Gorman. Gareth Stevens, 2002. Call Number: 001.94 GOR
The Boy Who Could Fly Without a Motor by Theodore Taylor. Harcourt, 2002. Call Number: F TAY
Could UFO’s br Real? By Larry Koss, et al. Capstone Press, 1991. Call Number: 000 KOS
Coyote and the Laughing Butterflies by Harriet Peck Taylor. Simon & Schuster, 1995. Call Number: 398.2 TAY
Draw 50 Airplanes, Aircraft, and Spacecraft by Lee J. Ames. Doubleday, 1987. Call Number: 743 AME
First Book of Flight: A Child’s History of Aviation and Flight Log by Ashley Andersen. Plymouth Press, 2000.
First to Fly: How Wilbur and Orville Wright Invented the Airplane by Peter Busby. Crown Publishers, 2003. Call Number: 629.123 BUS
Flight by John Farndon. Marshall Cavendish, 2001. Call Number: 629.13 FAR
Fly! By Christopher Myers. Disney Press, 2001. Call Number: 629.1 MYE
Fly, Eagle Fly! An African Tale by Christopher Gregorowski. Simon & Schuster, 1999. Call Number: 398.2 GRE
Fly High! The Story of Bessie Coleman by Louise Borden. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2001. Call Number: B COL
Fly with Poetry: An ABC of Poetry by Avis Harley. Boyds Mills Press, 2000. Call Number: 811.5 HAR
Greek Myths retold by Geraldine McCaughrean. Simon & Schuster, 1993. Call Number: 292.2 McC
Jenny: The Airplane That Taught America to Fly by David Weitzman. Millbrook Press, 2002. Call Number: 629.1 WEI
Kites: Magic Wishes that Fly Up to the Sky by Hitz Demi. Random House, 2000. Call Number: 394.2 DEM
Life as an Air Force Fighter Pilot by Robert C. Kennedy. Scholastic Library Publishing, 2000. Call Number: 358.43 KEN
Make Things Fly: Poems About the Wind by Dorothy M. Kennedy. Simon & Schuster, 1998. Call Number: 811 KEN
Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot: A True Story of the Berlin Airlift and the Candy That Dropped From the Sky by Margot Theis Raven. Sleeping Bear Press, 2002. Call Number: 943.1 RAV
My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann. Roaring Brook Press, 2003. Call Number [E] ROH
Oddhopper Opera: A Bug’s Garden of Verses by Kurt Cyrus. Harcourt, 2001. Call Number: 811.54 CYR
Paper Airplanes: Models to Build and Fly by Emery J. Kelly. Lerner Publications, 2000. Call Number: 745.5 KEL
The Secrets of Animal Flight by Nic Bishop. Houghton Mifflin, 1997. Call Number: 591.1 BIS
7 Secrets of Highly Successful Kids by Peter Kuitenbrouwer. Lobster Press, 2001.
The Spider and the Fly by Mary Botham Howitt. Simon & Schuster, 2002. Call Number: 821.8 HOW
Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold. Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1996. Call Number: [E] RIN
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms Taback. Viking, 1997. Call Number: 782.4 TAB
Wings on the Wind: Bird Poems by Kate Kiesler. Hougton Mifflin, 2002. Call Number: 821 KIE
The Wright Brothers for Kids: How They Invented the Airplane with 21 Activities Exploring the Science and History of Flight by Mary Kay Carson. Chicago Review Press, 2003. Call Number 291.1 CAR

VIDEOS

q Flight 1 VHS (30 min.), Prism Entertainment, 1989.

q Flight (Videorecording) by Andrew Schlessinger and Simon Jollands. (13 min). Animated. Call Number: VHS 629.12 FLI

q Flight (Videorecording) (23 min.) Produced by Schlessinger Media, 1999. Call Number: 629.13 FLI

q Flight (videorecording) (20 min.) Walt Disney Educational Media, 1985. This is a fantasy adventure encompassing the physics of flight for grades 4-6, including thermal currents, aerodynamic forces of gravity, thrust, and drag lift.

Websites

A fun site with animated movie, quiz, timelines, activities, etc…Click on “Technology”, then “Flight.”

www.brainpop.com/

National Aviation Hall of Fame—check out the “Education” and the “Youth Activities” pages.

www.nationalaviation.org/

Science Fun with Airplanes--this site explains the principles of flight along with how to control an airplane and build a glider. Science Fair project ideas and related links are also included.

www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~flight/homepage.html

Yellow Airplane—a commercial site with great visuals and information. Includes a list of U.S. airplane museums and “airplane art.”

www.yellowairplane.com

Re-Living the Wright Way—NASA

Wright.nasa.gov

To Fly is Everything

www.invention.psychology.msstate.edu/air_main.shtml

Way Back: U.S. History for Kids—Flight

www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/kids/flight/index.html

The Wilbur and Orville Wright Story

http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/Wright1.html

Wright Again