Field Trip Options

Grades: K – 3rd

Students discover how people learned to fly! Students start by examining different creatures that fly, learn about the basic forces of flight, and then get hands-on with a plane.

Ohio Standards: K.LS.1, K.LS.2, K.PS.1, 1.PS.2, 2.PS.1

Grades: K – 3rd

Students explore the science and history of flight! Students experiment with the four forces of flight and explore a bi-plane.

Ohio Standards: 1.PS.2, 2.PS.1, 2.History.3, 3.Geography.4, 4.History.8

Grades: K – 3rd

Students investigate the science of flight. Students will explore and experiment with the four forces of flight and Bernoulli’s Principle. Students will also learn about the basic control surfaces of a plane and explore a plane.

Ohio Standards: 4.History.1, 4.History.8, 5.Economics.13

Grades: 4th – 6th

Students will learn about changes in our solar system and explore the spectacular phenomenon of eclipses.

Grades: 7th – 12th

Students gain an unique insight and perspective of WWII by participating in interactive and role playing experiences. Students will decide to enlist in the armed forces or wait to be drafted and will explore the ramifications of these decisions as either a flight crew member or combat engineer. Students will NOT have the opportunity to experience both military paths.  Students will learn about military life and also how WWII altered life on the Home Front.

Grades: 6th – 12th

Students will examine the complicated history of the relocation of Japanese Americans during WWII. Students will be able to experience hands-on a typical home in a Japanese internment camp.

Grades: 6th – 12th

Students will learn about the Wright Brothers’ contributions to flight and the significance Ohio played in aviation history. Model planes will illustrate the changes in design over time and there will be an overview of the history of flying inventions.

Grades: 9th – 12th

Students will learn about the basic control surfaces of a plane, experiment with airfoils, explore careers in aviation and climb-in a plane.