Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades K-4, Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12, Informal Education
Subject
History, Mathematics, Physical Science, Flight, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement and Data Analysis, Problem Solving, Flight and Aeronautics, Forces and Motion
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities
Museum in a Box
Museum in a Box program brings the physical sciences of flight to students in grades K-12.
Great for educators at museums, science centers and schools, Museum in a Box provides exciting hands-on/minds-on lessons with an aeronautics theme to inspire future scientists, mathematicians and engineers.
The lessons are tied to all national science and math standards.
MUSEUM IN A BOX LESSONS DRESSING FOR ALTITUDE
Why Do We Really Need Pressure Suits? (5-12)
HISTORY OF FLIGHT
If These Airplanes Could Talk (5-12)
First Flyers (PK-4)
Designing an Aeronautics Museum Gallery (5-12)
PARTS OF AN AIRPLANE
Getting on an Airplane (K-2)
Parts of an Airplane (K-12)
PRINCIPLES OF FLIGHT
Kites (K-12)
Axes/Control Surfaces (K-8)
Four Forces (K-8)
Bernoulli’s Principle (K-8)
Principles of Flight in Action (9-12)
Foam Wing (K-12)
STRUCTURES AND MATERIALS
Space Shuttle Tires (K-12) + Supplemental Lessons
Composites (K-12)
Shuttle Tiles (2-12)
PROPULSION
Rockets Away (K-12)
Ball Launcher (5-12)
Wind Power (9-12)
FUTURE FLIGHT
Aerolab (5-12)
Fuel Cell Activity (5-12)
Solar Power (5-12)
CAREERS IN AERONAUTICS
Careers in Aeronautics (5-12)
AIRSPACE
Weather to Fly By (K-8)
Noise: Good Vibrations (K-8 and 9-12)
Noise: Speed of Sound (9-12)
Noise: Quieting the Popper (5-12)
Noise: Seeing Sound (K-8)
Pollution: Making Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide (K-12)
Contrails (K-12)
All Museum in a Box Lessons Combined in 1 PDF (193.5 MB) (It may take a while to download)