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# K-12 Educator Resources

Discover Aeronautics themed activities to enrich students with knowledge about aeronautics and the history and science behind it.

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## Smart Skies

Smart Skies is a program developed by NASA to engage students in Grades 5-9 in real-life applications of mathematics and science.

### Smart Skies Overview

The program enables students to apply proportional reasoning to make decisions and resolve conflicts in realistic air traffic control problems.

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### LineUp with Math

LineUp With Math consists of six Problem Sets, enabling students to explore and apply decision-making and proportional reasoning skills to resolve distance-rate-time conflicts in realistic air traffic control problems.

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### Flyby Math

FlyBy Math is a series of five Air Traffic Control (ATC) problems, each increasing in complexity, that examines a different distance-rate-time air traffic scenario that an air traffic controller might encounter.

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### Simulator

Air traffic control Sector 33 which simulates what an air traffic controller is responsible for to keep the airspace safe. There are a series of problems to complete.

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## Lessons, Activities, and Opportunities

Aeronautics themed activities to help students learn more about aeronautical concepts.

### NASA Aero Fair

The program is comprised of three, one-hour sessions taught over the course of a week, by NASA Aeronautics experts and volunteers.

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### Aircraft Design and Identification Activities

Help NASA celebrate our newest X-planes and designs with the activities in the flier.

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### Flight Log

When you sign up for a flight, your name will be digitized and downloaded onto a storage device that will be carried personally by the pilot on that flight.

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### High Flying Peeps: Designing a Pressure Suit

Three activities are included that help students understand what happens to the human body in a reduced-pressure and/or near vacuum environment.

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### Winter Break STEM Activities

Join Orville and the NASA Aeronautics team for some hands-on fun. Create an X-59 snowflake, build a plane, color and draw. Are you going on a trip? Make a travel book and take Orville with you!

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### Aeronautics @ Home

A collection of NASA Aeronautics activities for students to learn more about aeronautics concepts from coloring pages, solving puzzles, watching videos and more.

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### Museum in a Box Lessons

Great for educators at museums, science centers and schools. Museum in a Box provides exciting hands-on lessons with an aeronautics theme to inspire future scientists, mathematicians and engineers.

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### High Flyers Alphabet Activity Book

The High Flyers Alphabet Activity Book introduces basic aeronautics terms. Students can color and practice letter writing, learn new words, solve simple addition problems and more.

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### Shape Memory Alloy Activity

Through experimentation and/or demonstration, students will be introduced to shape memory alloys (SMAs) and how they are being tested to save energy usage on aircraft.

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### NASA's Junior Pilot X-59

Learn all about flight and the X-59 airplane. Follow along with Orville the flying squirrel to become an official NASA junior pilot.

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### X-59 Maker Bundle

To allow students of all ages and experience levels to build with us! Try your hand at one or all of these activities, available in both English and Spanish.

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### Airplane Coloring Pages

Download and print coloring sheets to learn about the different types of airplanes NASA has used or is researching for new development.

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### Sustainable Aviation Toolkit

Hands-on activities for students of all ages, videos, games and puzzles provides an explanation of what sustainability means at NASA Aeronautics.

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### Quesst Supersonic STEM Toolkit

Provides educators and students with cross-curricular content related to NASA's Quesst mission and the science of sound for students pre-K through 12.

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### Design Your Own X-Plane

Learn what an X-plane is and how NASA uses X-planes for research. Then roll the dice to find out what features you will need to include on your own X-plane.

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### NASA's Lower the Boom Citizen Science Activity

Acting as citizen scientists, students use a free mobile app to collect and submit levels of ambient noise.

View Lower the Boom Citizen Science Activity

## Resources

Sources to learn more about aeronautics.

### NASA AeroTech Mini Posters

This series of lithograph PDFs (mini-posters) identifies technology and knowledge made possible by NASA aeronautics researchers during NASA's history.

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### Leveled Readers and Literacy

A variety of stories are available for use in classrooms and beyond. Each story includes reading comprehension support pages, some have associated videos to enhance the learning experience.

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### Aeronaut-X

Aeronaut-X provides unique opportunities to stimulate STEM engagement and learning experiences for students and educators.

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### Virtual STEM Toolkit

This virtual toolkit is created to help you navigate many of NASA’s resources for a K-12 audience.

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### Re-living the Wright Way

Re-live the Wright brothers' inventive process with hands-on activities and games, archives of interactive webcasts/broadcasts, and background information on the Wright brothers.

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### Aeronautics Educator Guide

The K-4 activities in this guide help students learn the basic principles of flight. The end of each chapter has a list of simple interdisciplinary activities for all elementary subjects.

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### The Courage to Soar

This integrated unit allows students to conduct scientific experiments, construct aircraft models, and read selections and research topics about aviation. 

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### Learning to Fly

The year is 1900 and you have been appointed by the mysterious "Society" to learn about the flying experiments of Wilbur and Orville Wright! 

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### NACA + NASA Timeline

This two-sided poster highlights key aeronautics research and flight test achievements from 1957 through NASA's 50th anniversary year in 2008.

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## Aero Educational News

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