Touching+the+Sky



Touching the Sky by Louise Borden and Trish Marx; illustrated by Peter Fiore; published 2003

Summary: The authors document the extraordinary lives and achievements of Wilbur and Orville Wright. From their humble beginnings to their later success and riches.

Activities: Read biographies of Orville and Wilbur Wright. Flight unit - make paper airplanes, study how planes fly, make model planes.

Compare the Wright Brothers airplane to aircraft of today.

Use a Venn diagram, or create a graph.

WebLinks: [|Trish Marx home page] [|The Wright Experience] [|Meet the Wright Brothers] [|Kid's Fly Zone]  __[|Make Your Own Plane] __