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Links last updated 10/29/2010

Following are some of the best online resources for teaching about the Wright brothers' accomplishments. The list below includes biographical resources, sources of photo images from the Wright brothers' lives, plus more than a dozen additional lesson plans for teaching about the Wright brothers' historic flight.

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL RESOURCES

• The Wright Story The most comprehensive online resource.
• Inventing Flight for Schools
• Wilbur and Orville Wright: A Brief Biography
• History of Flight: Wright Brothers
• The Wright Stuff PBS movie clips.
• How We Made the First Flight by Orville Wright
• Wright Brothers National Memorial
• Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright
• The Wright Brothers First Flight: An ABC CyberDictionary [Link not working 10/29/2010]

WRIGHT BROTHERS TIMELINES

• Wright Timeline
• Wright Brothers Timeline
• Centennial of Flight Timeline
• Awesome Stories: History of Flight
• History of Flight

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES ABOUT THE WRIGHT 1903 FLYER

• Milestones of Flight: The Wright 1903 Flyer
• History of the 1903 Wright Flyer
• 1903 Flyer Plans, Diagrams�
• In Depth: The 1903 Flyer
• 1903 Wright Flyer Simulation
• How Airplanes Work

GREAT PHOTO/IMAGE RESOURCES

• The Wright Story
• Wright Brothers/1903 Flyer Photo Gallery
• Aeronautical Engineering Collection
• Wilbur and Orville Wright Click on each year (e.g., 1900, 1901�).
• The Wright Flyer: Practice Makes Perfect [This archived link may load slowly]

MORE LESSON PLANS FOR TEACHING ABOUT THE WRIGHT BROTHERS

While surfing the Net to put together this week's lessons, we came across a number of great teacher-created activities we felt you should know about. Click each lesson headline below to view that lesson.

• Stories of the Wrights' Flight
• History Through Primary Sources: Stories of the Wrights' Flight (HTML version)
• History Through Primary Sources: Stories of the Wrights' Flight (PDF version)
• How Things Fly: Activities for Teaching Flight
• The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk
• This Is America, Charlie Brown: The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk (video)
• Flights of Inspiration: Teachers' Zone
• Wright Flyer Online: Teachers' Lounge
• Experiment: Balloon Thrust
• It's Been Wright for 100 Years [This archived link may load slowly]
• Wright Brothers Word Search Puzzle
• "I Am All of Them and More": A Wright Brothers Skit
• Wright Brothers Readers Theater Script [pdf]