Curating

Annotating

READ

1. Bird Anatomy & Bird Parts - How birds are built to fly

2. NASA Beginner’s Guide to Aerodynamics

3. Animal Library Books - search the library catalog for your chosen animal. Library books about animals are located in the non-fiction section in the 500s.

4. How people learned to fly, by Fran Hodgkins. This picture book explores the history of flight, discussing the many ways people tried to fly, and explains the science of flight.

5. Animals in flight, by Steve Jenkins The pictures and text in this book describe how animals fly and glide.

6. Flight, by Chris Oxlade. This book describes some of the craft that have been used to allow people to fly and some animals that can fly on their own.

WATCH

1. How do birds fly? - This video explains the adaptations birds have to be able to fly.

2. How things Fly An interactive from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

3. Why do wings help you fly? This video explains why some popular ideas of flight are incorrect. Listen and watch explanations of two theories of "lift". 'Think' questions your understanding and 'Dig Deeper' provides further resources.

4. The aerodynamics of flight - This video explains the aerodynamics of flight

INTERACT

1. Wings for Flight Use this interactive to compare flight capabilities of planes with birds, matching those that are the most similar. Through observation of birds in flight, planes have been designed to have similar capabilities.

DOWNLOAD

Use the sites below to find beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project.