Students will research and create a video production or classroom drama about the scientific investigations and inventions of famous first aviators, starting with Leonardo da Vinci's helicopter, early kites, Wright Brothers, Lindberg, and Amelia Earhart. Have the research teams turn their notes over the play production teams who write the scripts using the facts found by the research teams. Also have the play production teams include the word lists into their scripts. Students create a video production. Students summarize information discovered about famous first aviators.
Students turn research notes into plays.
Half hour sessions over a three week period. Have the students build models and make as many drawings as possible of different airplanes, space craft, and helicopters. Let them create a three-dimensional time line by hanging the models from the ceiling in historical order. Students design drawings and models of different airplanes, space craft and helicopters. Students design three-dimensional timelines of aviation history.