Integrating aerospace science into the curriculum, K-12

562 Pages·1992·3.11 MB·English

by  Robert D. Ray

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Integrating Aerospace Science into the
Curriculum: K-12

Integrating Aerospace Science Into the
title:
Curriculum, K-12 Gifted Treasury Series
author: Ray, Robert D.; Ray, Joan Klingel.
publisher: Teacher Ideas Press
isbn10 | asin: 0872879240
print isbn13: 9780872879249
ebook isbn13: 9780585123080
language: English
Aeronautics--Study and teaching, Gifted
subject children--Education, Talented students--
Education.
publication date: 1992
lcc: TL560.R38 1992eb
ddc: 375/.6291
Aeronautics--Study and teaching, Gifted
subject: children--Education, Talented students--
Education.
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Gifted Treasury Series
Jerry D. Flack, Series Editor
Integrating Aerospace Science into the Curriculum: K-12. By Robert
D. Ray and Joan Klingel Ray.
Inventing, Inventions, and Inventors: A Teaching Resource Book. By
Jerry D. Flack.
Mystery and Detection: Thinking and Problem Solving with the
Sleuths. By Jerry D. Flack.
Teaching Teenagers and Living to Tell about It: Gifted Students and
Other Creatures in the Regular Classroom. By Pamela Everly.
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Integrating Aerospace Science into the
Curriculum: K-12
Robert D. Ray
and
Joan Klingel Ray
1992
TEACHER IDEAS PRESS
A Division of
Libraries Unlimited, Inc.
Englewood, Colorado
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Copyright © 1992 Libraries Unlimited, Inc.
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programs or other educational programs in a single school.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ray, Robert D.
Integrating aerospace science into the curriculum, K-12 / Robert
D. Ray and Joan Klingel Ray.
xxi, 191 p. 22x28 cm. (Gifted treasury series)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-87287-924-0
1. AeronauticsStudy and teaching. 2. Gifted children
Education. 3. Talented studentsEducation. I. Ray, Joan
Klingel. II. Title. III. Series.
TL560.R38 1992
375'.6291dc20 91-47024
CIP
Rev.

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This book is dedicated to
the children who inspired and motivated us
to seek new and innovative activities
for teaching aerospace.
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Contents
Preface from the Series Editor xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xv
Chapter 1 1
Humanity's Fascination with Flight
Flight, Mythology, and Literature 1
Leonardo da Vinci: From Palette to Pilot 2
Notes 8
Bibliography 8
Chapter 2 10
Lighter-Than-Air Aircraft: Balloons, Dirigibles, and
Blimps
Lift and Gravity: Two of the Four Forces of Flight 10
How a Hot-Air or Gas Balloon Works 11
The First Balloonists: The Montgolfiers and Hot Air 13
Animal Aeronauts 14
Balloons 15
Jacques A. C. Charles and the Robert Brothers 15
Helium Replaces Hydrogen 16
Balloons in Battle 17
The Modern Hot-Air Balloon 17
Balloons in Space 18
Meet a Balloonist: Dewey Reinhard 18
Mastering the Winds: Dirigibles 21
The Other Two Forces of Flight: Thrust and Drag 21
The Zeppelins 22
The First Mass Air Transport System 23
The Dirigible Boom 23
What Is a Blimp? 24
A Ballooning Timeline 25
Notes 26
Bibliography 27
Chapter 3 30
Heavier-Than-Air Aircraft: Kites, Gliders, and Propeller
Airplanes through the "Golden Age of Flight"
Kites 30
Forces of Lift and Drag on Kites 30
Kite History 34
Kites at Work 35
Kite + Glider = Primitive Airplane 36
Cayley's Kites and Gliders 36