The Wright Brothers

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The Wright Brothers
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• EDE 417-01
• Miranda Walker
• Heather Woessner
• Developed for 1st and 2nd Grade

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Table of Contents

• 1-History
• 2-People in Societies
• 3-Geography
• 4-Economics
• 5-Government
• 6-Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities
• 7-Social Studies Skills and Methods
• Each standard includes 5 activities, 5 websites,
  and the learning content is geared towards 1st
  and 2nd grade.

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1-History

• Students use materials drawn from the diversity
  of human experience to analyze and interpret
  significant events, patterns, and themes and the
  history of Ohio, the United States and the world.

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1-Activities

• Activity 1- Students research events from the
  Wright Brothers lifetime and organize them on a
  time line.
• Benchmark B- Place events in correct order on a
  time line.
• Indicator 3(2nd grade)- Place a series of
  related events in chronological order on a time
  line.
• Activity 2- Students research their own life
  events and place them on a time line. They will
  then compare their own time line to the Wright
  Brothers time line through class discussion.
• Benchmark B
• Indicator 2(1st grade)- Place events from ones
  own life in a chronological order.
• Activity 3- As a whole class, discuss how
  aviation has changed from the past to the present
  and how it has affected peoples lives. From
  ideas generated through the discussion, students
  will draw and write about their own flying
  machine they would invent.
• Benchmark C- Compare daily life in the past and
  present demonstrating an understanding that while
  basic human needs remain the same, they are met
  in different ways in different times and places.
• Indicator 6b(2nd grade)- Identify and describe
  examples of how science and technology have
  changed the daily lives of people and compare
  forms of transportation from the past and the
  present.

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1-Activities continued

• Activity 4- Search and explore artifacts left
  behind by the Wright Brothers. Write about an
  artifact you will leave behind for your
  descendants.
• Benchmark C
• Indicator 4(1st grade)- Raise questions about
  how families lived in the past and use
  photographs, letters, artifacts and books to
  clarify what is known and what is
• unknown.
• Activity 5- Explore how aviation has changed
• through the years and what it is today.
• Students will draw what they believe we will
• use to fly in the future.
• Benchmark B
• Indicator 3(1st grade)- Distinguish among
• past, present and future.

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1-Websites

• -Interactive Tour of the Wright B Flyer
• www.wright-b-flyer.org
• -Time Line Information
• www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson044.s
  html
• -Time Line Information
• www.nasm.si.edu/wrightbrothers/index_full.cfm
• -Artifact Gallery
• www.nasm.si.edu/wrightbrothers/interactiveExperime
  nts/index.cfm
• -Aviation History
• www.planesoffame.org

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2-People in Societies

• Students use knowledge of perspectives,
  practices and products of cultural, ethnic and
  social groups to analyze the impact of their
  commonality and diversity within
  local, national, regional and global
  settings.

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2-Activites

• Activity 1- Students will partner up to research
  and write a biography about Wilbur or Orville
  Wright.
• Benchmark B- Identify ways that different
  cultures within the United States and the world
  have shaped our national heritage.
• Indicator 4(2nd grade)- Describe the
  contributions of significant individuals,
  including artisans, inventors, scientists,
  architects, explorers and political leaders to
  the cultural heritage of the United States.
• Activity 2- Take a field trip to Huffman Prairie
  to discuss and explore the Wright Brothers
  accomplishments during their experimental stage
  of aviation.
• Benchmark B
• Indicator 4(2nd grade)

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2-Activities continued

• Activity 3- Observe various picture of airplanes
  that have evolved over time as a class discuss
  the contributions that the Wright Brothers made
  to aviation. Students will develop a poster board
  presentation of contributions they are making to
  their own community.
• Benchmark B
• Indicator 4(2nd grade)
• Activity 4- Read My Brothers Flying Machine by
• Katharine Wright, in this story Katharine
• talks about the contributions her brothers have
• made to aviation.
• Benchmark B
• Indicator 4(2nd grade)
• Activity 5- Discuss the reunion that takes place
  each year on the anniversary of the Wright
  Brothers first flight (December 17) at the
  Wright Memorial. The descendants of those who
  witnessed the first flight gather each year to
  lay wreaths in remembrance of the support that
  their ancestors offered to the Wright Brothers.
  Students will write in their journals about
  reunions that they have witnessed or attended
  (family reunions).
• Benchmark B
• Indicator 3(1st grade)- Describe family and
  local community customs and
• traditions.

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2-Websites

• -Huffman Prairie
• www.ascho.wpafb.af.mil/huffman.htm
• -First Flight Reunion
• www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3733138/
• -Background Information on the Wright Brothers
  (Biography Activity)
• www.nasm.si.edu/wrightbrothers/index_full.cfm
• -Background Information on the Wright Brothers
  (Biography Activity)
• www.academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Wright
  _Brothers
• -Background Information on the Wright Brothers
  (Biography Activity)
• http//wright.nasa.gov/

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3-Geography

• Students use knowledge of geographic locations,
  patterns and processes to show the
  interrelationship between the physical
  environment and human activity, and to explain
  the interactions that occur in an increasingly
  interdependent world.

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3-Activites

• Activity 1- Students will make their own paper
  airplanes and experiment with directions and
  distance of flight.
• Benchmark A- Identify the location of the state
  of Ohio, the United States, the continents and
  oceans on maps, globes and other geographic
  representations.
• Indicator 1a and b(1st grade)- Identify and
  correctly use terms related to location,
  direction and distance including (a) left/right
  and (b) near/far.
• Activity 2- Students will write an analysis of
  the quality of their paper airplane. In the
  analysis students will consider how near or far
  the plane traveled.
• Benchmark A
• Indicator 1b(1st grade)
• Activity 3- Use a map of Dayton and the United
  States to located places of significance for the
  Wright Brothers (Home, Huffman Prairie, Kitty
  Hawk, and the Wright Cycle Company).
• Benchmark A
• Indicator 3(1st grade)- Identify and use symbols
  to locate places of significance on maps and
  globes.

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3-Activities continued

• Activity 4- Students will make their own map of
  Dayton indicating the locations of significance
  for the Wright Brothers (Home, Huffman Prairie,
  and the Wright Cycle Co.)
• Benchmark A
• Indicator 2(2nd grade)- Construct a map that
  includes a map title and key that explains all
  symbols that are used.
• Activity 5- Review the field trips made
• to Huffman Prairie and the Wright
• Cycle Co. Museum. Make a Venn
• Diagram to compare and contrast the
• characteristics from each location.
• Benchmark B-Identify physical and human
• features of places.
• Indicator 6(1st grade)- Compare areas within
• the local community to identify similarities.

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3-Websites

• -Paper Airplanes
• www.zurqui.co.cr/crinfocus/paper/air-bld1.html
• -Paper Airplanes
• www.laits.utexas.edu/hebrew/personal/toolbox/acm/a
  irplane/airplane.html
• -Map of Dayton
• www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?countryUScitydayt
  onstateOH
• -Analysis of the 1903 Wright Flyer
• www.fluent.com/about/news/newsletters/03v12i2_fall
  /a2.htm
• -What Makes Paper Airplanes Fly?
• http//teacher.scholastic.com/paperairplane/airpla
  ne.htm

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4-Economics

• Students use economic reasoning skills and
  knowledge of major economic concepts, issues and
  systems in order to make informed choices as
  producers, consumers, savers, investors, workers
  and citizens in an interdependent world.

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4-Activities

• Activity 1- Take a field trip to the Greene
  County Airport, explore the services that the
  airport provides for the community.
• Benchmark B- Distinguish between goods and
  services and explain how people can be both
  buyers and sellers of goods and services.
• Indicator 2(1st grade)- Describe the ways people
  produce, consume and exchange goods and services
  in their community.
• Activity 2- Continue discussion about how the
  Wright
• Brothers provided services to their community
• focus on The Wright Cycle Co. Students will
  write
• about their bicycles at home (or what theirs
  would
• be like if they dont have one) and what
• they do when something goes wrong (or what they
• would do if something broke). Who fixes your
  bike?
• Benchmark B
• Indicator 2(1st grade)
• Activity 3- Take a field trip to the Wright Cycle
  
• Co. in Downtown Dayton.
• Benchmark B
• Indicator 2(1st grade)

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4-Activities continued

• Activity 4- Discuss how the Wright Brothers
  provided services to the community with their
  newspaper shop (The West Side Newspaper). As a
  class, the students will write their own
  articles, come up with pictures, and develop a
  newspaper for their parents and their school
  community.
• Benchmark B
• Indicator 2(1st grade)
• Activity 5- Have a representative from the Dayton
  Daily News come in and discuss the
• goods and services they
• bring to the community.
• Benchmark B
• Indicator 2(1st grade)

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4-Websites

• -Wright Cycle and Co. Museum
• www.birthplaceofaviation.com
• -Dayton Daily News
• www.daytondailynews.com
• -Greene County Airport
• www.i19airport.com
• -West Side News
• www.first-to-fly.com/Information/
• West20Side20News/news.htm
• -West Side News
• www.nasm.si.edu/wrightbrothers/who/1889/index.cfm
  

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5-Government

• Students use knowledge of the purposes,
  structures and processes of political systems at
  the local, state, national and international
  levels to understand that people create systems
  of government as structures of power and
  authority to provide order, maintain stability
  and promote the general welfare.

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5-Activities

• Activity 1- Have a police officer come in and
  speak with the students about bicycle safety.
• Benchmark A-Identify elected leaders and
  authority figures in the home, school and
  community and explain reasons for having persons
  in authority.
• Indicator 1(1st grade)- Recognizing the rule of
  authority figures in providing for the safety and
  security of individuals.
• Activity 2- Take a field trip the National Museum
  of the United States Air Force.
• Benchmark A
• Indicator 2c(2nd grade)- Explain how a system of
  government provides order to a group such as a
  school or a community and why government is
  necessary including providing services.
• Activity 3- Reflect on the field trip to the Air
  Force Museum. Have students write in their
  journals about what role the Air Force plays in
  protecting our community/country.
• Benchmark A
• Indicator 2c(2nd grade)

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5-Activities continued

• Activity 4- Students will write letters to the
  air force thanking them for their services.
• Benchmark A
• Indicator 1(1st grade)
• Activity 5- Read the book Airman in
• the Royal Air Force by I and J
• Havenhand
• Benchmark A
• Indicator 1(1st grade)

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5-Websites

• -Bicycle Safety
• www.rtis.com/reg/bcs/org/bvcweb/bvc-tips.htm
• -Bike Safety
• www.kidshealth.org/kid/watch/out/bike_safety.html
  
• - National Museum of the United States Air Force
• www.nationalmuseum.af.mil
• -America Supports the Air Force (and others!)
• www.americasupportsyou.mil/americasupportsyou/inde
  x.aspx
• -Government Website for Kids
• http//bensguide.gpo.gov/subject.html

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6-Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities

• Students use knowledge of the rights and
  responsibilities of citizenship in order to
  examine and evaluate civic ideals and to
  participate in community life and the American
  democratic system.

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6-Activities

• Activity 1- Students will be pair up and work
  together to construct their own Wright Flyer
  using the Wright Flyer Model Kit. They will
  informally share their finished product with the
  class and then reflect in their journals about
  what it was like to work with a partner just as
  the Wright Brothers worked with each other every
  day.
• Benchmark A- Describe the results of cooperation
  in group settings and demonstrate the necessary
  skills.
• Indicator 1a-c(2nd grade)- Demonstrate skills
  and explain the benefits of cooperation when
  working in group settings (a) manage conflict
  peacefully, (b) display courtesy, and (c) respect
  others.
• Activity 2- Students will make a poster with self
  illustrated pictures displaying how they feel the
  Wright Brothers were good citizens. To introduce
  the assignment have a discussion on vocabulary
  related to being a good citizen (honesty,
  self-assurance, respect, persistence, and
  patriotism.
• Benchmark B- Demonstrate personal accountability,
  including making choices and taking
  responsibility for personal actions.
• Indicator 3a-e(2nd grade)- Demonstrate
  citizenship traits including (a) honesty, (b)
  self-assurance, (c) respect for the rights of
  others, (d) Persistence, and (e) patriotism.
• Activity 3- Students will make their own kites
  and share them with the class. They will be
  asked to talk about why they are proud of their
  kite. Following, we will fly our kites outside!
• Benchmark B
• Indicator 4(1st grade)- Demonstrate pride in
  personal accomplishments.

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6-Activities continued

• Activity 4- Students will make their own Magnus
  Flyer.
• Benchmark B
• Indicator 2(1st grade)- Demonstrate
  self-direction in school tasks.
• Activity 5- Using the Wright Flyer models that
  the students built in groups, the class will set
  up our own class aviation museum. Included in
  each display the students will each create a
  statement of pride about their project. These
  will be written on note cards and placed in front
  of their planes.
• Benchmark B
• Indicator 4(1st grade)

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6-Websites

• -Wright Flyer Model Kit
• www.first-to-fly.com/Adventure/Workshop/modelkits.
  htm
• -The Magnus Flyer
• http//fi.edu/wright/magnus.html
• -Wright Brothers Information
• www.nasm.si.edu/wrightbrothers/
• -Make Your Own Kite!
• www.skratch-pad.com/kites/make.html
• -Learn to Make a Kite
• www.tutorials.com/04/0479/0479.asp

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7-Social Studies Skills and Methods

• Students collect, organize, evaluate and
  synthesize information from multiple sources
  to draw logical conclusions. Students
  communicate this information using
  appropriate social studies terminology
  in oral, written or multimedia form and apply
  what they have learned to societal issues in
  simulated or real-world settings.

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7-Activities

• Activity 1- Students will watch the movie This
  is America Charlie Brown The Wright Brothers at
  Kitty Hawk and then a QuickTime clip of the
  Wright Brothers flying the Glider.
• Benchmark A- Obtain information from oral,
  visual, print
• and electronic sources.
• Indicator 1(1st grade)- Obtain information about
  a topic
• using a variety of oral and visual sources.
• Activity 2- During computer lab time students
  will play
• the interactive online Wright Brothers game.
• Benchmark A
• Indicator 1(1st grade)
• Activity 3- Read the book The Wright Brothers
  Pioneers
• of Flight by Ian Graham
• Benchmark A
• Indicator 1(2nd grade)- Obtain information from
  oral, visual and print sources.

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7-Activities continued

• Activity 4- Students will complete a graphic
  organizer using information they have learned
  about the Wright Brothers.
• Benchmark C- Communicate information orally,
  visually, or in writing.
• Indicator 5(2nd grade)- Communicate information
  in writing.
• Activity 5- As a class the students will
  participate in Readers Theatre telling about the
  Life of the Wright Brothers in Sequence.
• Benchmark C
• Indicator 5(1st grade)-
• Communicate information
• orally or visually.

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7-Websites

• -Interactive Wright Brothers Game
• www.ueet.nasa.gov/StudentSite/games/wb2k3/wb2k3.ht
  ml
• -Graphic Organizers
• www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/
• -List of Wright Brothers Books and Informational
  Websites
• www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wright/resources.html
• -Readers Theatre Script
• www.mrsmcgowan.com/projects/flight/wrigh_Brothers_
  rt_script.doc
• -QuickTime Clip of the Wright Brothers
• www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wright/glider.html

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