The First Flight

In this Tell the Story activity, students retell the story of Orville and Wilbur Wright, and events which led up to their famous first flight in 1903.They talk about a sequence of pictures which also appear in the Clicker Book "The First Flight – Read a Book", summarizing key events such as how they became interested in flying machines and eventually successful aviation pioneers.

Select a picture to open a recording page. Listen to the recordings in sequence on the start page.

Read about the Wright brothers and how they came to make the first airplane flight in the Clicker Book "The First Flight – Read a Book." Search for first flight on LearningGrids for a range of follow-up activities on this topic.

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