K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

The K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook is a kid-friendly, interactive textbook that makes understanding basic scientific principles fascinating and fun. By using the Web and Web video, young students can see a series of experiments that use familiar parts of their everyday world – a pinwheel, a baseball, and a feather – to entertain and to teach. Instead of intimidating young students with abstract concepts, the K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook makes understanding aeronautics as simple as flying a kite.

The textbook also has a teacher’s supplement with lesson plans. It has three reading levels, in both English and Spanish. The materials are adapted for deaf students through a groundbreaking graphics presentation of American Sign Language. Each lesson plan also has a series of creative links from aeronautics to literature, art, social science, and math. There’s a guide that shows scientists and engineers how to work with students and their teachers in grades K-8, and a self-paced class that introduces the Net to teachers and shows them how to use it.

System Requirements: A World Wide Web Browser with JavaScript or QuickTime support and an Internet connection.

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Jani Macari Pallis, Ph.D.

Cislunar Aerospace, Inc.