Airplanes
Planemath links math with imaginative uses of airplanes, such as the calculations needed for flying a herd of buffalo...
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Planemath links math with imaginative uses of airplanes, such as the calculations needed for flying a herd of buffalo. With Shockwave the activities are accessible to students with physical disabilities.
Aeronautics, developed at UCDavis, caters to different levels of learners (beginner to "instructor", includes both principles of aeronautics and lesson plans, and presents an animated American sign version and text in Spanish. Lessons and principles are integrated with background information in such studies as mythology, history, sports and biology (animals). Wings applies aerodynamics to sports, e.g. the topspin on a tennis ball. Fun stuff.
The AERO pages at NASA offer career paths (trajectories)and opportunities to learn about aeronautics visa projects, chat and online role-plays.
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum has a complete on-line collection of planes (and space craft) with pictures and descriptions of over 356 aircraft. For a details about the Wright Brothers' inventions see Inventing Flight. Students can compare their own problem-solving to the Wrights'.
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This compilation demonstrates the power of the Web is amassing resources in one place heretofore not easily accessible. The richness of the detail will encourage students to explore a topic in-depth rather than the cursory treatment available in most hardcopy libraries or the many tomes one would need to study to acquire such information.
