STEM Exhibits Bring Aviation to Life
Just as Amelia broke barriers with her independent spirit and determination, the museum aims to spark curiosity and wonder in youth visitors. Focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), we give youth the tools they need to imagine future advancements and feel confident they can accomplish it.
Exemplifying Earhart’s Adventurous Spirit
The Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum incorporated years of research about the intrigue and mystery of Earhart’s legacy into high-tech, interactive STEM and history exhibits that weave her life, accomplishments, and challenges into an experience you won’t forget! Each exhibit has been carefully curated to complement National Curriculum Standards, Kansas Curriculum Content Standards, and Missouri Standards of Learning.
Your students are destined for a unique learning adventure when they visit the Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum. Our immersive and hands-on exhibits leave students with the awe of aviation dreams and a concrete understanding of STEM and history concepts.
- Engaging history exhibits that shed light on the life and times of Earhart.
- Learn about physics and Newton’s law of gravity by operating a miniature roller coaster.
- Learn about Amelia’s many career paths including nurse, mechanic, pilot, and fashion designer!
- Discover the history of flight — from unmanned gliders and biplanes to jet engines and space travel.
- Hear the roar of Amelia’s Lockheed Electra 10-E aircraft’s Pratt & Whitney R-1340 WASP engine, and see a modern Pratt & Whitney Geared Turbofan come to life.
- Challenge your riveting skills to discover the precision required to forge the nearly 85,000 metal rivets that hold Muriel, our Lockheed Electra 10-E aircraft, together.
- Discover feats of other trailblazing women in aviation — past and present.
- Enter a full-scale replica of Muriel’s cockpit to experience Earhart’s perspective inside what she called her “cozy cubbyhole”!
- Compare Amelia’s instrument panel today’s modern Garmin’s G1000 avionic suite.
- Learn more about Amelia’s final flight and cast your vote on what happened
- Turn on “Amelia’s guiding lights” to see how constellations helped Amelia navigate the night sky.
- Go “above the clouds” to explore how Amelia and her navigator, Fred Noonan, relied on radio waves, a sextant, and quick calculations to fly.
- Explore theories and cast your vote on what happened to Amelia and Fred Noonan on July 2,1937 when their plane disappeared over the South Pacific
Flying Into History!
The Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum, in partnership with American Cornerstone Institute’s Little Patriots, is thrilled to unveil our latest curriculum offering: Flying Into History – The Legacy of Amelia Earhart. This engaging, online program for grades K-5 invites students to dive into Amelia’s extraordinary with a delightful cartoon and a series of lessons. Delve in to discover how Amelia’s unwavering determination and courage not only made her a pioneer in the skies but also a brilliant example of someone who chased her dreams!
Don’t Let the Learning End!
At the Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum, we help children see that STEM is more than just a class at school. We show real-life applications and how they make a difference in our world.
STEM education helps to bridge the ethnic, socio-economic, and gender gaps often found in math and science fields. By giving students and visitors opportunities to explore STEM-related concepts, they will develop a passion for it and even potentially consider a career in a STEM field.
We have worked with local teachers to develop STEM lessons specific to calculus, physics, engineering, and more. Many of these are virtually available. We’ve also created Teachers’ Guides that contain content for pre- and post-visit. Upon confirmation of a scheduled field trip, educators will receive the Teachers’ Guide for free.
- Excerpt from the Elementary Teacher’s Guide
- Excerpt from the Middle School Teacher’s Guide
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