Individual Lesson Plans
"If you are looking for perfect safety, you will do well to sit on a fence and watch the birds;but if you wish to learn, you must mount a machine and become acquainted with its tricks."
- Wilbur Wright to the Western Society of Engineers, 1901
Below you will find all of the individual lesson plans from the park's teacher's guides. Complete downloads are available for all of the teacher's guides. Visit the Teacher's Guide page, the Teacher-Ranger-Teacher Lesson Plans page or the Wright Bros. Teacher's Guide page to download any one or all of them.
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- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Level: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
- Subjects: Social Studies
- Tags: Wright Brothers,Wright Brothers National Memorial,North Carolina History,North Carolina,Education,social studies,4th grade,fourth grade,3rd grade,third grade,5th grade,fifth grade
What were Wilbur and Orville like when they were in grade school? What did they do for fun? Why did they decide to fly? Explore all of these questions with your students in this in-classroom lesson plan designed to introduce students to who Wilbur and Orville Wright were. Students will research the brothers and construct a timeline of important events in their lives. Subject(s): Social Studies. Grade(s): 3rd-5th.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Level: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
- Subjects: Literacy and Language Arts
- Tags: North Carolina History,North Carolina,aviation,aviation firsts,aviation history,aviation figures,Wright Brothers National Memorial,Wright Brothers,Outer Banks,third grade,3rd grade,4th grader,fourth grade,5th grade,fifth grade,ELA,English Language Arts,social studies
How do you tell what's real and what's fake? Students will explore this question by comparing three texts about the Wright brothers’ first flight in order to determine what actually happened that historic day. Subject(s): English Language Arts, Social Studies. Grade(s): 3rd-5th.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Level: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
- Subjects: Science
- Tags: aviation,science,science and learning,aviation history,North Carolina History,Wright Brothers National Memorial,Wright Brothers,lift,third grade,3rd grade,4th grade,fourth grade,5th grade,fifth grade
How does an airplane get in the air? In this in-classroom lesson plan, students will explore one of forces of flight by constructing and using a simple device to demonstrate lift. Subject: Science. Grades: 3rd-5th.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Level: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
- Subjects: Literacy and Language Arts
- Tags: language arts,Education,lesson plan,aviation history,aviation firsts,aviation figures,Wright Brothers,North Carolina History,North Carolina,Wright Brothers National Memorial,6th grade,sixth grade,seventh grade,7th Grade,8th grade,eighth grade,English Language Arts,ELA
Were Wilbur and Orville Wright really the first people to fly? In this in-class lesson plan, students will perform research and debate two points of view in order to answer that question. Subject: English Language Arts. Grades: 6th-8th.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Level: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
- Subjects: Social Studies
- Tags: social studies,Education,lesson plan,aviation,Wright Brothers,Wright Brothers National Memorial,North Carolina History,North Carolina,community,6th grade,sixth grade,7th Grade,seventh grade,8th grade,eighth grade
How does flight impact your life today? In this in-classroom lesson plan, students will explore the impacts the Wright brothers' invention had on transportation, communication, and business in the United States as well as how it continues to impact us today. Subject: Social Studies. Grades: 6th-8th.
- Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park
Airplanes of the Future!
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Level: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
- Subjects: Literacy and Language Arts,Math,Science,Social Studies
Students will be able to recognize and create artwork that celebrates technological achievements.
- Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park
Clay Stamps
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Level: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
- Subjects: Literacy and Language Arts,Math,Social Studies
Stamping process to create repeating patterns.
- Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park
Douglass
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Level: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
- Subjects: Literacy and Language Arts,Social Studies
The instructor will lead students in a discussion about Frederick Douglass, his accomplishments, and his contributions to American society. Students will be asked about the visual imagery in the poem, and will brainstorm ideas for showing these images in a picture.
- Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park
Family Tree
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Level: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
- Subjects: Literacy and Language Arts,Math,Science,Social Studies
Students will be able to depict relationships between individuals in a work of art.
- Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park
Mapping a Neighborhood
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Level: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
- Subjects: Literacy and Language Arts,Math,Science,Social Studies
Students will be able to recognize, identify, and draw significant landmarks on a map.