Panel 3: Special Interest / Profiles / Web Sites

NASA Spacelink Home: The Library Instructional Materials > NASA Educational Products > Consider a Career in Aerospace

http://spacelink.nasa.gov/products/Consider.a.Career.in.Aerospace /

Profiles of Frontierswomen: We invite boys and girls to join us and learn more about these exceptional women.

http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/space/frontiers/profiles.html

Who Was Harriet Quimby?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flygirls/peopleevents/pandeAMEX05.html

"… the first American woman to earn a pilot's license."

http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/space/frontiers/activities/womanswork/firststimeline/all.html

Women in Aviation Resource Center 

                                                                              Harriet

http://www.women-in-aviation.com/

                                                                             Quimby

Astronaut Biographies

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/

Aviation Organization Sites: Women in Aviation International is dedicated to encouraging young people to consider aviation careers.

http://www.wai.org/

The Centennial of Flight: Rediscovering the Challenges of Flight

http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/projects/aero/centennial/ed.html

The Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum (NASM) maintains the largest collection of historic air and spacecraft in the world.

http://www.nasm.si.edu

NASA's Learning Technologies Project (LTP) includes a suite of Internet projects that teachers and students may use. LTP offers a wide variety of educationally sound standards-based projects that help educators explore science, math, and engineering

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http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/

Federal Aviation Administration -

"… designed to help bring the excitement and opportunities of aviation to young minds everywhere."

http://www.faa.gov/education/

NASA Aerospace Technology Enterprise

http://www.aero-space.nasa.gov/

 US Centennial of Flight Commission

Welcome to Sights and Sounds of Aviation

http://www.centennialofflight.gov/sights/index.htm

Johnson Space Center (JSC) Digital Image Collection

http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/iams/html/pao/pao.htm

Dryden Research Aircraft Photo Gallery

View hundreds of photos of NASA aircraft.

http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/index.html

NASA Education Web Sites

This site offers information about all of the NASA Education Programs.

http://education.nasa.gov/home/

The ALLSTAR Teacher Guide related to National Standards

http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/Teachers.html

Aviation Weather Centers (Grades 5-8)

A map of the Aviation Weather Centers

http://aviationweather.gov

 NASA CONNECT Video-Web Series (Grade 5-8) Establish the connection between the mathematics, science and technology learned in school and that used everyday by NASA researchers.

http://connect.larc.nasa.gov