Classroom and Curriculum

National Curriculum Info
The Powers That Be when it comes to curriculum standards.  If you're looking to map your resources against the curriculum this is your first stop.

Business in Schools
Some useful resources and case studies on workplace visits by schools.  Could be adapted to an aviation theme or used by aviation employers, airfields, etc.

Lesson Plans and Schemes of Work

The plage below gives examples of schemes of work and lesson plans with supporting materials for various curricula

Lesson Planning

General Aviation Awareness Council

The GAAC have some good educational resources, including a full lesson plan with handouts comparing the wildlife habit of an airfield and a golf course.

Teachers.tv

A website aimed at teachers.  Aims to spark ideas, publish good practice and suport CPD activities.

A couple of good aviation themes videos:

Building Wonders: Concorde

Worth the Visit: Duxford -- using aircraft and hangar construction to teach "Structures"

Maths for Real: Bearings - Second half of the programme focusses on the importance of maths when navigating an aircraft.

In a similar vein, but at university level is:

Academic Earth

A collection of video lectures (and supporting notes).  There's some aerospace content in the engineering section with a series on lectures on the systems engineering fo the space shuttle 

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Skills Activity PowerPoints

Two here produced by Chris Shaw (chrisshaw42@btinternet.com) from the Scouts

"Making a Foam Wing Rib" and "Parachuting an Egg"  Also available the "How to" for creating the Hot Foam Cutter used to create the foam wing rib.

Click here to go to the Powerpoint download page.

Teacher Guide

The BMFA has a particularly successful relationship with schools through their model aircraft kits which comes with detailed build instructions and clear teacher guides packed with curriculum links.  This is downloadable from: Teachers Guide

SMARTBoard Resources

Resources for the SMART Interactive Whiteboard.  If you don't have the required software, you can download a viewer here to view the resources on any PC.

Available activities include interactive activities, whole class worksheets, and lesson plans.

Click here for the SMARTBoard download page

Or if a SMARTBoard is out of the price range, how about the low cost WiiMote alternative.  Needs only a normal computer, projector, bluetooth dongle, a standard Wiimote and a small driver piece of software. 

Starchaser

How about a rocket in the playground...?  The Starchaser Educational Outreach Programme has a range of visit programmes and workshops to inspire school children at all ages.

http://space4schools.co.uk

STEMnet

Support for enhancing the science, technolgy, engineering and maths curriculums.

http://www.stemnet.org.uk/teachers.cfm

Met Office Education Resources

The Met Office have a range of resources both free and paid for on thie rwebsite, including materials suitbale for primary and secondary pupils as well as higher education and for pilots.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/education/index.html

Why Science?

Inspiring stuff for teachers -- "The curriculum should be a springboard -- not an anchor"

http://whyscience.co.uk