Describes a three-day program aimed at public school educators and community leaders. The goal was to encourage these people to include air age education in their programs. Activities included hands-on projects. (MA)

Lists 17 activities that can be used in the classroom to commemorate Wright Brothers Day. These include making bulletin boards, writing poems, and a field trip to the airport. (MA)

This packet includes games and activities concerning aerospace education for the very young. It is designed to develop and strengthen basic concepts and skills in a non-threatening atmosphere of fun. Activities include: (1) "The Sun, Our Nearest Star"; (2) "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, How I Wonder Where You Are"; (3) "Shadows"; (4) "The Earth…

Provides instructions for building a working model of a hot-air balloon, offering suggestions for a successful flight. Indicates that children can be involved in the projects, for example, by filling in colors in the panels of a balloon drawing. (JN)

Suggested are activities using a Polaroid camera to illustrate the capabilities of remote sensing. Reading materials from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are suggested. Methods for (1) finding a camera's focal length, (2) calculating ground dimension photograph simulation, and (3) limiting size using film resolution are…

This unit is designed to stimulate interest in math, engineering, aerospace, and physics through the exploration of rocketry science. It serves as a ready source of information dealing with the subject of rocketry and provides directions for completing a variety of hands-on rocketry science experiments, including the design, construction, and…

Describes activities to demonstrate Bernoulli's Principle, the effect of vibration on reaction time, formation of craters on the moon and weather simulation. (CP)

Describes a classroom organized as a self-contained closed spaceship which provides an opportunity for individualized learning based on student interests and a chance to wrestle with the problems that would arise on an interstellar journey in a spaceship. (BR)

Describes the Alabama Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama as stimulating experience for students in aerospace education. The center has the largest collection of space-age hardware assembled under one roof, a Space Flight simulator, a Skylab space station mock-up and many more interesting exhibits. (BR)

This publication is composed of 10 units, each based on an area of space science and technology in which chemistry plays an important role. Each resource unit can be used independently of the others and materials can be selected from within a unit. The materials range in difficulty from the junior high level of understanding to those that will…

As part of a meteorology unit, sixth grade science students launched helium balloons with attached return postcards. This article describes Weather Service monitoring of the balloons and postcard return results. (MA)

Describes the winners of the Space Traveler Project, a contest jointly sponsored by Rockwell International, NASA, and this magazine to identify worthwhile elementary science programs relating to the Space Shuttle. (SJL)

Presents a science activity on making paper airplanes in which the basic laws of physics are introduced. Provides procedures to make paper airplanes with illustrations. (Author/KHR)

Uses engineering projects to make students create design prototypes of paper airplanes in order to teach the scientific principle of flight. (ASK)

Describes an aviation course at Perris High School, (Perris, California) designed primarily for potential high school dropouts in which students rebuilt a wrecked airplane. (BR)