My Brothers’ Flying Machine Wilbur, Orville, and Me LindaC/Callison/2012

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1.Read the definition 2.Look at the picture 3.Try to guess the word 4.Click to see the word Note to Teachers: Treasures recommends you use the DEA (Define/Example/Ask) Routine to introduce vocabulary. This power point does not use this routine and is meant to be used after students have been introduced to vocabulary words.

to put something together assemble

lifting a heavy object hoisting

something that’s guaranteed or certain assured

titles of newspaper articles headlines

something that is unsteady unstable

when something is praised, usually by clapping applauded

High Interest Words These are words in the story you may not have seen before.

fiddling with something in an attempt to repair it tinkering

the world’s largest museum and research complex Smithsonian This is the original Smithsonian Museum, built in the early 1850s. It is sometimes called “the castle.”

thought about something mused

forces on an aircraft lift and drag

assembled unstable applauded headlines hoisting assured High Interest Words tinkering Smithsonian mused lift and drag Continue for slides of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

You can visit Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, where the Wright Brothers first achieved powered flight.

This is the hill where they first practiced with gliders.

The powered aircraft ran along rails like these before taking flight

Visit the workshop. Then Now

Imagine what it would have been like to be there!