All About Planes Grades 2-4 - the History of Planes, Balloons and Helicopters

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  • Author : Whitear, Jane

Students will read and research about the first flying machines, the Wright Flyer, the history of planes from 1905 and balloon and the helicopter. They will experiment with how a plane flies and airports. The activities and worksheets touch upon social studies curricula while the skills practice cover many other subject areas, making this a truly integrated resource.

Skills covered include:

List of Skills Phonics: (Parachutes)

1. Long/Short Vowel "a"

2. Two Syllable Words

3. Suffixes

4. Compound Words

5. "er" Sound

6. Long/Short Vowel "o"

7. Rhyming Words

8. Following Specific Instructions

 

Word Study: (Whirlybirds)

1. Word Puzzle

2. Alphabetical Order

3. Word Search

4. Dictionary Skills

5. Syllabication

6. Making New Words

7. Root Words

8. Plural

9. Suffixes

10. Crossword Puzzle

 

Creative Writing: (The Wright Flyer)

1. Acrostic Poem

2. Story Writing - Fantasy

3. Story Writing - Adventure

4. Cinquain

5. Choose a Title

 

Art: (Aerodynamic Art)

1. Build a Model Balloon

2. Mural Making

3. Construction of an Airport

4. Design an Effective Paper Plane

 

Mathematics: (Monoplanes)

1. Bar Graph

2. Word Problems (+ and -)

3. Research and Graph

4. Time

5. Word Problems (x and+)

6. Number Facts ( + and -)

7. Fractional Parts

8. Measuring

9. Codes

10. Counting By Two

 

Research: (Runways)

1. Jobs on a Plane (Library Skills)

2. Mapping Skills

3. Facts About Planes (Research Skills)

4. Parachute Rescue (Reading/Research)

5. Charts on Jobs for Helicopters (Organizing Skills)

 

Reading: (Plane Facts)

1. First Flying Machines ( Research Skills )

2. The Wright Flyer (Reasoning)

3. How Does a Plane Fly (Experiment)

4. Flying High - (Context Clues)

5. Planes from 1905 ........ (Context Clues)

6. Balloons and Ballooning (Context/Reasoning Skills)

7. History of the Helicopter (Context/Research)

8. So You Want......... (Context/Research/Analysis)

9. The Airport (Context/Research/Analysis)

 

Higher Level Thinking Skills: (Up in the Clouds)

1. Problem Solving (Bird/Balloons)

2. Solutions to Overcrowding

3. Decision Making Skills

4. Organization Skills

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