Do your students consider taking a trip on an airplane an amazing, exciting adventure? If they don't now, they will after learning about how Charles Lindbergh ushered in the age of commercial flight in an historic flight from New York to Paris. They'll discover how Lindbergh's early flying experiences uniquely qualified him for his flight across the Atlantic. They'll learn how he prepared for the flight, and they'll climb into the cockpit of the Spirit of St. Lewis with him and share his thoughts during the 33 1/2-hour flight through discussion, games, creative writing, art, songs, rhymes and more. They'll even learn some French, which Lindbergh did not do, and they'll compare his small plane with small planes of today. It's a flight they won't forget, and it will teach them to appreciate their next flight experience as they never have before. For grades 1-4.
