A Unit on Airplanes

I am not planning on getting this one done this year. I put it together for a dear friend of mine. Now, I am sharing it here. Oh, it is obviously not all done. I still want to get a few more activities added.

AIRPLANES

People:

Amelia Earhart
Wilbur & Orville Wright
Charles Lindbergh
Chuck Yeager (pilot)
Baron von Richthofen (pilot)
Daniel Bernoulli

Books:

Twenty One Balloons (William Pene ISBN: 0140320970)
Around the World in Eighty Days (Jules Verne ISBN: 1402736894)
Angela's Airplane (Michael Martchenko ISBN: 155037026x)
The magic Airplane (Peter Walker ISBN: 1595264167)
Grandpa's Airplane: An Alaska Grandpa Bush Pilot Story (Kirk Thomas ISBN: 1594330794)
Richard's Scarry: A Day at the Airport (Huck Scarry ISBN: 0375812024)
Moon Plane (Peter McCarty ISBN: 0805079432)
Amelia Earhart: Young Aviator (Beatrice Gormley ISBN: 0689831889)
Charles Linberg (Anne Schraff ISBN: 1599052504)
Daedalus and Icarus (Menalaos Stephanides ISBN: 9604250256)
Planes (Usborne)

Educational:
First to Fly: How Wilbur & Orville Wright Invented the Airplane (Peter Busby ISBN: 1897330529)
How We Invented the Airplanes (Orville Wright ISBN: 0486256626)
The Color Encyclopedia of Incredible Airplanes (Dk Pub ISBN: 0756626129)
The Wright Brothers: (...) 21 Activities Exploring the Science and History of Flight (Mary Kay Carson ISBN: 1556524773)
The Story of Flight: The Development of Aviation Through the Ages (Stephen Woolford ISBN: 1847323561)
Wings and Rockets: The Story of Women in Air and Space (Jeannine Atkins ISBN: 0374384509)


DVDS:

Fly Past: History of Aviation (History Channel)
Aviation Week: Superior Airpower
War Planes of WWII (History Channel)
The Technology of Kitty Hawk
Amelia Earhart Aviator
Naval Aviation (History Channel)
The Spirit of St Louis
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang






Activities:

Draw an airplane and label the parts.

Draw 50 Airplanes, Aircraft and Spacecraft (Lee J.. Ames ISBN: 0385236298)

Visit an aviation museum

Make paper airplanes

Have a paper airplane contest. Award prizes for originality, farthest distance, fastest speeds, longest glide time.

Discuss man's various uses for airplanes. What kind of planes best suit these various uses? What planes are best for: crop dusting, passenger carrying, cargo carrying, bombing, etc.? What distinctives do each of these planes need to carry out their fonctions?

Build a model airplane

Visit one or more airports

Go on an airplane tour

Buy a remote control airplane