Wright Brothers Resources

Student Resources
Websites listed below are excellent resources to learn about the Wright Brothers and the first powered airplane flight, December 17, 1903. Other early aviation information can also be found on these pages.

First Flight http://sln.fi.edu/flights/first/
FAA Aviation Education "The Wright Stuff" http://www1.faa.gov/education/wright/wright.htm
The Wright Story http://www.first-to-fly.com/History/Wright%20Story/wright%20story.htm
Wright Brothers History http://www.centennialofflight.gov/wbh/index.htm
History of Flight U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission http://www.centennialofflight.gov/hof/index.htm
How Did We Learn To Fly Like Birds? http://www.ueet.nasa.gov/StudentSite/historyofflight.html
This Day in History: Aviation http://www.centennialofflight.gov/index.cfm

Encyclopedias

World Book Encyclopedia  MCPS only
New Book of Knowledge  MCPS only
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia  MCPS only

Teacher Feature

Re-living the Wright Way http://wright.nasa.gov Lesson plans and activities
NASA Celebrates a Century of Powered Flight Topic Hotlist http://aerospace.nasa.gov/edu/3topic.html
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