I wouldn �t have thought to ask here untill I saw a wonderful worksheet on the history of flight in the recent contibutions yesterday. (by; OL1N3)

Every year, our school has a week long project of �experimental learning �. They mix up all the classes  and create four groups. Each group, mixed in age from 7 to 12, learns about a subject thru games, plays, and experiments. It is great fun but a looooot of work for the teachers. The subject of my group is "flight" (or more precisely, air transport). My first workshop will be about �bloopers � in early flight...the period where people would run around flapping giant wings believing it would make them fly....or make funny contraptions hoping for lift off....I already found some material (a few videos)  but not nearly enough.....

If any of you happen to have videos or pictures on this subject I would be soooo grateful!

My PM doesn �t work but you can contact me thru my email ( �contact � under the avatar)

Here are a few interesting sites for you:

 

 

Australia �s Lawrence Hargrave - http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/hargrave.html;

 

 

 

 

 

If I come across anything else that may be handy I �ll let you knoe.

 

Cheers,

AB

 

There is a really good silent video at http://www.maniacworld.com/early-flight-inventions.html. It�s pretty funny! Hope that helps...

 

Adrienne

that is indeed one of the videos I downloaded for the workshop. It is great and exactly the kind of thing I �m looking for. This specific one I have but anything of this kind is useful to me...

thanks for replying!