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Serial Activities The Invention Problem Solving Flying Machines In The News Online Explorations |
Up in the Air:
The Story of the Wright Brothers
Chapter Twelve: Chicago (August-September 1901)
Wilbur and Orville have returned to Dayton after a second trip to Kitty Hawk. Both brothers feel that their latest experiments have gone badly.
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2. The brothers had to use information from both mechanics and engineers. Determine the differences in these two fields. Then, study the want ads in The News-Journal and make a list of the kinds of jobs available in each field. Check out more details by clicking on Occupational Handbook under the Noteworthy heading on the nieworld home page. Share your findings with friends or family.
ON THE WEB: A Nice Place to Visit -- There are a gratifying number of places where visitors can get a glimpse of life in the early-19th-century U. S., via re-enactments at living history museums. If you´d like to take a trip to another time frame, you might give these a try.
ON THE WEB: House plan: Residence of a Country Physician, 1878 -- Within a radius of fifty miles from this point, taking as a center the present position of the pen, there lives a Doctor, one of those men who it is necessary to call in at stated times to help us gather our scattered roses; or when, at certain periods, it is strictly necessary to have him to stand by as a good friend.
Serial Story: UP IN THE AIR -- The 18-part serial story ran in the Daytona Beach News-Journal each Monday from January 13 through May 19 (except for April 14). Text and illustrations for the serial copyright © 2003 by Brian Floca. Sponsored in part by Inventing Flight, Dayton, Ohio. Reprinted by permission of Breakfast Serials, Inc. www.breakfastserials.com.
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