Airplanes( Series - Innovation In Transportation )

This new series focuses on inventions that shaped the modern world. This look at the airplane takes readers back to where it all began--on a North Carolina beach where brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright set into motion a discovery that would change the world forever. Full color.

- A comprehensive series that has multidisciplinary appeal.
- Provides in-depth information plus 4-color images, timeline, glossary, index, and to find out more section.
- Grades 5-8 Social Studies
- Time, Continuity, and Change: II
- Identify and use key concepts such as chronology, causality, change, conflict, and complexity to explain, analyze, and show connections among patterns of historical change and continuity.
- Grades 5-8 Science
- Science and Technology in Society: V: F-5
- Technology influences society through its products and processes.
- History and Nature of Science: VII: G-3C
- The history of science can show how difficult it was for scientific innovators to break through the accepted ideas of their time to reach the conclusions that we currently take for granted.