Weekend Family Workshops

Additional Resources

• Learn more about the WASP from the The Bullock Texas State History Museum
• The National Women’s History Museum also has information about WASP
• Listen to how WASP finally were recognized for their service Female WWII Pilots: The Original Fly Girls : NPR
• Search the official archive of the WASP from Texas Women’s University
• The Flight Deck podcast has An Interview with a WASP and WASP to learn more!

Watch Videos

• WASPs and the P-51D
• WASPs and Fifinella

Some Good Reads!

For mid-to-late elementary-aged readers:

• The Fearless Flights of Hazel Ying Lee by Julie Leung
• What Grandma Did by Erin Miller
• Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII by Sally Deng
• Sky High: The True Story of Maggie Gee by Marissa Moss

For middle school readers:

• Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith
• Seized by the Sun: The Life and Disappearance of World War II Pilot Gertrude Tompkins by James W. Ure
• Flying Higher: The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II by Wanda Langley

For high school and adult readers:

• The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line by Major General Mari K. Eder
• A WASP Among Eagles by Ann B. Carl
• The Women with Silver Wings by Katherine Sharp Landdeck
• Wings: A Novel of World War II Flygirls by Dr. Karl Friedrich
• Fly Girls: The Daring American Women Pilots Who Helped Win World War II by P. O’Connell Pearson

• The Flight Girls by Noelle Salazar
• Finding Dorothy Scott: Letters of a WASP Pilot by Sarah Byrn Rickman

Additional Resources

• Learn about how birds have inspired mechanical flight  - NASA.gov
• Natural flight, bird wings and paper airplanes – Learn how bird wings inspire airplane wing shapes – wvstateu.edu
• Butterfly Wings: using Nature to learn about Flight – Learn how wings use the flying force of LIFT – stemlibrarylab.org
• How we lifted flight from bird evolution – learn how early engineers like the Wright Brothers used Bird, Bat and insect wings to make their flying machines – hrwc.org by Erin Malsbury

Some Good Reads!

• Let’s Fly a Plane by Chris Ferrie
• Take Off - A Berenstain Bears Book  by Mike Berenstain
• Kid’s Paper Airplanes Book by Ken Blackburn and Jeff Lammers
• Why Should I Walk? I Can Fly! By Ann Ingalls

Perseverance Rover & Ingenuity Whirligig

Additional Resources

• Take a virtual tour of the Perseverance rover and learn about all of the components in a very up-close way! - Learn About the Rover - NASA Mars
• Find out all about the 23 cameras on Perseverance including where they are and what they do! - Rover Cameras - NASA Mars
• Learn more about Ingenuity including its flight log from Mars! - Mars Helicopter - NASA Mars
• Spend some time coloring with an expert and learn about the Ingenuity helicopter!
  • Color the Mars Helicopter with a Robotics Technologist (VIDEO)
  • Mars Ingenuity Helicopter coloring sheet (DOWNLOAD)
• Play a low-tech game with someone to learn about the communication delay on Mars! - Sorry for the Delay

Some Good Reads!

• Mars' First Friends by Susanna Leonard Hill and Elisa Paganelli
• Mars Science Lab Engineer Diana Trujillo by Kari Cornell
• Interplanetary Robots: True Stories of Space Exploration by Rod Pyle