November is Aviation History Month. Below is a collection of FREE websites, printables, crafts, and activities to add to your homeschool studies to learn all about aviation, airplanes, famous aviators, & flight.
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Websites
The Aviation History Online Museum is a collection of articles related to the history of aircraft, aircraft engines, historic aviators, and aircraft theory.
How Airplanes Work from How Stuff Works Science.
Printables
Measuring Distance with Paper Planes
Aviation Notebooking Pages from In All You Do.
Build your own Aviation History Museum with this printable pack.
Amanda Bennett Flight Lapbook from Homeschool Share.
Free Airplanes Preschool Pack from Homeschool Preschool
Airplane Themed Printables (word search puzzles, mazes, word scrambles, etc)
Airplanes and Flight Words Game & Printables
Videos & Interactive/Online Activities
Wright Brothers’ Videos from History.com
Pilot the Wright Brothers’ Flyer with this interactive website from NOVA.
Here is a list of books to check out from the library.
Flight: The Complete History
Flight (DK Eyewitness)
Kids Paper Air Plane Book
How People Learned to Fly
A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart
The Big Book of Airplanes
The Airplane Alphabet Book
The Little Airplane
The Wright Brothers for Kids
To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers
The Glorious Flight (Here’s a free lapbook to go with this book!)
Craft & Hands-On Activity Ideas
Assembly instructions to Build the Best Paper Airplane in the World!
If you have an empty cardboard box lying around, keep little ones busy with a cardboard box airplane.
And with a few craft sticks (or left over popsicle sticks), glue, & paint – you can make this cute wooden airplane toy!