Hot Springs Greater Learning Foundation
Thermopolis, Wyoming
Heroes of the Sky -- Teacher Resources
Resources – Part 3
Reference Materials , Suggested Readings and Websites for Children
Books:
General Aviation
Flight, Fliers and Flying Machines by David Jefferis
Pioneers of the Air by Molly Burkett
The Visual Dictionary of Flight published by Dorling Kindersley
Inventors
Jenny: The Airplane That Taught America to Fly by David Weitzman
My Brothers’ Flying Machine by Jane Yolen
The Wright Brothers by Pamela Duncan Edwards
Fliers
Amazing Flights: The Golden Age by Ole Steen Hansen
Feathers, Flaps and Flops: Fabulous Early Fliers by Bo Zaunders
Nobody Owns the Sky by Reeve Lindbergh
Talkin’ About Bessie by Nikki Grimes
Explorers
Black Whiteness: Admiral Byrd Alone in the Antarctic by Robert Burleigh
Something to Tell the Grandcows by Eilenn Spinelli
Record Breakers
Ruth Law Thrills a Nation by Don Brown
Flight by Robert Burleigh
Lindbergh by Chris L. Demarest
Brave Harriet by Marissa Moss
Web Sites:
General Aviation
The Henry Ford Museum www.thehenryford.org/museum/heroes/
Evolution of Flight www.flight100.org
To Fly is Everything… Invention.psychology.misstate.edu
Inventors
First Flight firstflight.open.ac.uk
Flights of Inspiration sln.fi.edu/flights
The Wright Brothers Web Resources for Students http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/wright.htm
Fliers
Bessie Coleman.com http://www.bessiecoleman.com/
Lincoln Beachey http://www.lincolnbeachey.com/
Air Mail Pioneers
http://www.airmailpioneers.org/
Explorers
Alone on the Ice http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/ice/
Richard E. Byrd http://www.south-pole.com/p0000107.htm
Record Breakers
Glenn H. Curtiss http://www.glennhcurtiss.com/
U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission: James H.
Doolittle
http://www.1903to2003.gov/essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_
and_Daredevils/doolittle/EX18.htm
Lindbergh www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lindbergh
The Pioneers: Celebrating the Bicentennial of Aviation www.ctie/monash.edu/hargrave/thaden.html
Entrepreneurs
The DC-3 Aviation Museum http://www.centercomp.com/dc3/
SEE ALSO
RESOURCES part 1 – Books, annotated bibliography
RESOURCES part2 (Technology) for audio, video, CDROMs, websites, etc.
This information is an edited version of The Educational Programming Guide for Heroes of the Sky, © July 2007, ExhibitsUSA, a Division of Mid-America Arts Alliance. Edit by Hot Springs Greater Learning Foundation for website and classroom use.