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Amelia Earhart

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Audience/Grade: 5th Grade - Continuing Education
Discipline(s): Aerospace Engineering
History of Science and Technology
Technology and Society
Learning Resource Type: Teaching - Case Study
Media Type:

 WWW
Author(s): AllStar Network
Organization: AllStar - Aeronautics Learning Lab for Science, Tech & Research
Description: Website by the AllStar Network (Aeronautics Learning Laboratory for Science, Technology and Research). It has a Teacher's Guide and provides features on search, principles, and careers. Excerpt: "Amelia Earhart gained considerable fame June 17-18, 1928, as the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air. She felt this fame somewhat unjustified as she had only been a “passenger” on a Fokker trimotor piloted by Wilman Stutz and Louis Gordon from Trepassy Bay, Newfoundland, to Burry Port, Wales. In 1929 Earhart co-founded the “Ninety-Nines,” an international organization of women pilots, which continues today to promote opportunities for women in aviation, and served from 1930 to 1932 as its first president. Amelia Earhart was one of the first women in aviation to juggle a public and private life. Her 1931 marriage to publisher George Putnam did not prevent her from setting an autogyro altitude record. the following year she reaccomplished the Atlantic flight which brought her fame, this time as a solo pilot flying from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Londonderry, Ireland, a first for a woman. At a time when women were extremely rare in technical and scientific areas, Amelia Earhart distinguished herself by setting records which bettered men's records as well as women's."
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Keywords: Amelia Earhart, History of flight, gender equity, women and technology
   
Usage Tip
Use of Resource: Could be used as a case study of famous women and technology. It is part of a larger site on aeronautical engineering geared for K-12.
Difficulty: Very Easy
Interactivity Level: Low

   
Version Info
Publication Date: 2004
Platform/Format: WWW
Cost: Free
Download URL: http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/Earhart.htm
Metadata: IEEE LOM Record
Collection: NEEDS NEEDS