National Aviation Day
1 minK1st2nd3rd4th5thSocial Studies
Summary
Take your students to the skies and celebrate National Aviation Day on August 19th. Inspire an interest in design, engineering, and exploration with this look back on aviation history.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Short explainer (1 min) from PBS LearningMedia's *All About the Holidays*.
- Whose birthday is National Aviation Day set on, and why?
- How did flying change what people could do?
- What job in aviation would you want to try?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: aviation, aircraft, pilot, invention.
Try it: Build a paper airplane, fly it twice, and record which throw went farther and why you think so.