Title – Aviation Extention Activities and Book List

By – Audrey Pruitt

Subject – Math, Science, Social Studies, Art, Language Arts (MultiDisciplinary)

Grade Level – 1-3

Other Possible Activities and Ideas

Guest speakers: Pilot, flight attendant, ground crew, air traffic controller

Field trip: Airport, airpark, airstrip, and heliport

Construct a working model of an airplane

Make blimps out of paper

Watch a movie about famous aviators

Write to an airline and get wings and/or peanuts

Book List

— A Guide for Teachers: Airplanes from the publishers of The World Book Encyclopedia

— The Paper Airplane Book by Seymour Simon

— The Usborne Book of Planes and Helicopters by Clive Gifford

— We Fly by Alfred Olschewski

— Your World: Let’s take an airplane trip by Billy N. Pope and Ramona Ware Emmons

— Amazing Flying Machines by Robin Kerrod

— Airports, U.S.A. by Lou Jacobs, Jr.

— The Little Airplane by Lois Lenski

— The Story of Air Transport in America by Ray Spangenburg and Diane K. Moser

— Pilots Fly Planes by Fay Robinson

— Make it Work! Flight by Jack Challoner

— Blimps by Roxie Munro

— Let’s Find out About Airplanes by Martha and Charles Shapp

— Pilots and Aviation by Carter M. Ayres

— The Flight of the Lone Eagle: Charles Lindbergh Flies Nonstop from New York to Paris by John T. Foster

— Famous American Fighter Planes by David C. Cooke

— How Do Airplanes Fly? by Melvin and Gilda Berger

— Little Helicopter by Reed Kinert

— Planes by Francesca Baines

— The First Human-Powered Flight by Richard L. Taylor

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