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Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park
The Life of Captain Wilbur Kelly
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this lesson, students will create a six word story based on the accomplishments of Wilbur Kelly.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
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.
Wright Brothers National Memorial
The Wright Community
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
How does your community help you succeed? Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first flights of human history with the support of their family and friends. In this virtual-friendly, in-classroom lesson plan, students will learn about the first flights and the people who helped make them possible by researching an assigned friend of the Wrights and performing an interview about the first flight as the person they researched. Subject(s): Social Studies and English Language Arts. Grade(s): 3rd-5th.
Wright Brothers National Memorial
Wright Flight
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The 1903 Wright Flyer
Wright Brothers National Memorial
Wright Times Talk Show
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this in-classroom lesson plan designed for 3rd-5th graders, students will write a script that accurately depicts the story of the Wright brothers based on historical facts as well as the feelings of the locals in the area at the time of the First Flight.
Wright Brothers National Memorial
Wright Brothers Scavenger Hunt
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
A view of the interior of the camp building where Orville and Wilbur stayed while in the Outer Banks.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through 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 Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The Wright Flying Machine
Wright Brothers National Memorial
Wind Speed Scatter Plot
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The Wrights first flight
Wright Brothers National Memorial
Pythagoras’ Kite
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Let's go fly a kite! During this on-site lesson, students will go kite flying at the spot where Wilbur and Orville first flew. Students will then apply their knowledge of the Pythagorean Theorem to determine how high they flew their kite. Subject:Mathematics. Grades: Upper Middle School (6th-8th).
Wright Brothers National Memorial
Memorable Memes
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Who says learning can't be fun? In this virtual-friendly lesson plan, students will explore the geographical and technological factors that led to the first flights of human history while using their creativity to generate a memorable meme about the Wright brothers. Subject(s): Social Studies and Art. Grade(s): 6th-8th.
Wright Brothers National Memorial
Location, Location, Location.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The Wright Brothers National Monument
Wright Brothers National Memorial
Distance, Speed, and Time of the First Flight
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
How did the Wright brothers know they had successfully achieved the first flight? Three days before what we know of as the first flights, Wilbur took a test flight from the base of Kill Devil Hill. During this on-site lesson plan, students will explore the flight line using the distance/rate/speed equation and will decide why Orville's flight on December 17th earns the title of first flight. Subject: Mathematics. Grade: 6th-8th.
Wright Brothers National Memorial
The First Four Flights--Math Up!
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson plan will allow students to understand the path that led to the Wrights' success on December 17, 1903 by relating the stories of their interest in flying from youth, the growing interest in flight in the late 1890s and the flight experiments that led to their first flights in 1903. The story of their dream to fly will be used as a backdrop for students to solve relevant mathematical problems and connect with Wright Brothers National Memorial.
Wright Brothers National Memorial
Transformations & First Flight
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this in-classroom lesson plan, students will create their own model of the 1903 Wright Flyer and translate, reflect, and rotate the model on a coordinate plane. Subject: Mathematics. Grades: 6th-8th.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Photo credit: NPS photo
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
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 Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through 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.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through 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.
Women's Rights National Historical Park
Revolutionary Roots: the First Women’s Rights Convention held at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, NY
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
How does a social movement grow? Join a ranger to meet the five organizers of the 1848 Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention and learn more about the Wesleyan Chapel in which it was held. Discover how Faith, Fortune and Fate combined to ignite a movement.