Aerospace & Aviation

New! Aerospace Education Toolkits
These aerospace education toolkits offer teachers a variety of ready-to-use activities that support the diversity of career opportunities in the Aviation & Aerospace Pathways. The toolkits serve multiple purposes:

• To use validated, STEM-informed activities available to educators from content expert organizations.
• To introduce teachers to the wealth of existing resources that support aviation and aerospace education.
• To offer a template that teachers can apply to activities they discover or develop.

Each toolkit focuses on one activity that teachers may use with students at a particular grade level. A chart maps the contents of each activity. It also gives the teacher an overview of the activity and where to find the activity online from the source organization.

• Introduction - Includes a list of toolkits, description of features, and appropriate grades.
  
• Toolkit 0: Getting Airborne With Numbers - Students practice using the 24-hour clock and making basic calculations such as the time required for a flight, average groundspeed, and fuel consumption. Grade Levels: 6-8, 9-12.
• Toolkit 1: Bend that Bar - Students learn about material properties and that engineers must consider many different material properties when designing. This activity focuses on strength-to-weight
  ratios and how sometimes the strongest material is not always the best material. Grade Levels: 5-7.
• Toolkit 2: Birds Fish, & Airplanes - Students are introduced to the parts of an airplane. They identify the parts of a bird and a fish and relate those parts to similar parts of an airplane. They recognize the main parts of an airplane and develop a basic understanding of what the main parts do. Grade Levels: K-3.
• Toolkit 3: Finding the Center of Gravity - Students learn about an object’s center of gravity and why it’s important when designing unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs. Using multiple methods, students determine the center of gravity of simple and complex shapes. Grade Levels: 6-8.
• Toolkit 4: Build Your Own Weather Station - Students build six instruments they can use to make scientific measurements of their local weather. Grade Levels: 6-8, 9-12.
• Toolkit 5: Small UAV Safety - Students learn about flight safety and etiquette when using small unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs. Grade Levels: 6-8.
• Toolkit 6: Let's Build a Tabletop Airport - Students will design and build a model airport, learn the components of an airport, and use the tabletop model to demonstrate airport operations. Grade Levels: 2-4
• Toolkit 7: Aiming High for Careers - Students explore career opportunities in Aerospace & Aviation Pathways using career pathways videos. Grade Levels: 6-8, 9-12.
• Toolkit 8: Pioneers of the Sky - Students explore career opportunities in Aerospace & Aviation Pathways using career pathways videos. Grade Levels: 6-8, 9-12.
• Toolkit 9: Four Forces of Flight - Students do simple experiments to become familiar with the four forces of flight: thrust, drag, lift and gravity (or weight). Grade Levels: 6-8.
• Toolkit 10: Why Aircraft Fly - Students are introduced to the forces of flight and to jet propulsion. They
  demonstrate how lift can overcome weight (gravity) and how thrust (power) can overcome drag (air resistance). They also recognize the importance of aerodynamics in daily activities and they experience that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction (Newton’s Third Law of Physics). Grade Levels: 1-3.
• Toolkit 11: Where in the Air - Students identify the layers of the atmosphere and the layers in which different objects can be found. Grade Levels: 9-12.
• Toolkit 12: Construct a Rotor Motor - Students construct a rotor motor from a template and redesign the motor to make it descend more slowly. Grade Levels: 6-8.
  

Aerospace Education A to Z Resource Guide
Produced as a cooperative effort between the Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission and CareerTech, this guide includes over 100 free references for educators.