Simpson Elementary School (Cyber Skyschool), Bridgeport, West Virginia         http://www.wvonline.com/skyschool/page6.htm

Federal Way School District, (Internet Academy), Federal Way, Washington (they are using our material without our permission, for profit, though our material is free to all --presently their webpage does not allow access to the individual lessons without registering 12/4/2000)
http://206.191.191.113/flight/wk1/wk1list.htm   (history)
http://206.191.191.113/flight/wk2/wk2list.htm (history, flight control)
http://206.191.191.113/flight/wk3/wk3list.htm (history, flight principles)
http://206.191.191.113/flight/wk4/wk4list.htm (history, flight principles)
http://206.191.191.113/flight/wk5/wk5list.htm (review of history, flight principles and flight control)
http://206.191.191.113/flight/wk6/wk6list.htm (review of history, flight principles)
http://206.191.191.113/flight/wk7/wk7list.htm (review of history, flight principles)
http://206.191.191.113/flight/wk8/wk8list.htm (review of history, flight principles)

Southeastern Michigan Math-Science Learning Coalition uses many of our experiments in their list of experiments (see item numbers 6, 63, 75, 160, 162, 164, 172-176, 225-226, 285--correct to 12/15/2004).   The coalition considers us a Higher Education Partner.

Wakefield Senior High School, Arlington, Virginia, is using the ALLSTAR Careers Exploration CD-ROM (contact point is Wyllona Harris)

School Board Number One, Timmins, Ontario, Canada 

Gander Academy, Newfoundland, Canada 
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/flight.htm (many topics use ALLSTAR materials)

St. Patrick's Senior National School, Skerries, Co. Dublin,   Ireland is using the Level 1 History and Principles of Flight materials (contact point is John Harte)
http://ireland.iol.ie/~stpatsk/

Intelligent Agent a print and on-line magazine on the use of interactive media in arts and education

Individual Teachers Using ALLSTAR

• Dear Mr. Levy:
  
  I have been using the ALLSTAR webpage to enhance my 6th grade TECH IN ACTION class. During the past nine weeks we have been exploring advances in technology of space and aeronautical science. Shortly after finishing projects over space science, we began an aeronautics project. Before I assigned the project, I took to the web to find material, since I have no curriculum guide to follow. The AllSTAR site provided me with plenty of material, plus gave me ideas for additional research possibilities. I then took my class to the school computer lab and sent them to work. The kids went through the site and answered the questions that followed. I had the kids go through the site and the quiz before they even started their projects, this gave them a good idea of the kind of information they would have to collect and a good starting place for research.
  During the aeronautics project, the students had to research the history, fundamentals, and the future of flight. Throughout their research, my students kept going back to the ALLSTAR site for more information. The site really helped the kids to achieve their goal of putting together a great project. And somewhere along the way, they learned a lot too!
  
  Thanks so much for your help,
  Amy Ward
  Rangely Middle School,
  Rangely, Colorado

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• Rex Weisheit wrote:
  
  Hi, I wanted to let you know how informative I found your website. I teach Transportation at Reitz High School in Evansville, Indiana and we are currently covering Air Transportation. I think your site will enhance my lessons as well as give my students an opportunity to take in the same information in a different media format. Your site looks
  really great!

Sincerely,
Rex A. Weisheit

• Anna Mauk wrote:
  
  I teach 5th grade math and science and have 38 students. Each year I spend about 4 weeks teaching the students about the four forces of flight: thrust, drag, lift and gravity. I primarily use materials written by the AIMS foundation from their book The Sky's the Limit. I supplement this with activities of my own and those found from other sources. As a culmination activity to my aviation unit, we have a paper airplane air show. I was looking for web sites about paper airplanes when I came across your web site. I really liked the fact that it reinforced many of the concepts that I had taught in the classroom. My students became excited when they saw the various experiments on your page because we had done them already. They immediately wanted to do them again. They also particularly liked the animated plane that showed the different parts. They were a little disappointed that it did not show how some of the parts controlled flight. That led to discussions back in the classroom which led to some changes in their paper air planes to demonstrate how the flaps and rudder controls the plane.
  Once again, thanks for the work that went into preparing your web site. The 5th graders at Paradise think it was worth it!
  
  Anna Mauk
  
  [Please note that our site does show how some of the parts of the airplane control flight.  See for example http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/fltmidcont.htm]

• Brad Gilbert wrote:
  
  The information provided on the internet address www.allstar.fiu.edu regarding turbine engine technology has attracted my attention. As an Assistant Professor at the National Aerospace Education Center of Fairmont
  State College, I am currently teaching an aircraft turbine engine course.  Over the past few years we have used various textbooks to teach the course and have not been completely satisfied with any of the books previously
  used. I am very interested in getting a desk copy of your textbook entitled "Introduction to Gas Turbines for Non-Engineers." Within the next few weeks book orders for the fall semester will be due and I will need
  approximately 25 books. If your text fulfills our needs I will be eager to incorporate it into our program. Please let me know how I can obtain a copy or your text for evaluation.
  

Thank you, Brad Gilbert

• Rob Eby wrote:
  
  I wanted to inform you that I am planning on using some of your information and pictures in a class that I am going to teach to some Boy Scouts in the College Station area in Texas. I will of course give credit for the source, but I wanted to thank you for putting up such a nice educational site.
  
  Rob Eby

[the following is a combination of two emails from the same instructor]

• Bob Hoskins wrote:

  I am a high school teacher who is transitioning our program from electronics to Industrial Engineering Technology. We have included aeronautics and aviation in the curriculum since it is an interesting and motivating subject area from which we can teach applied physics and other areas of study in a secondary school pre-engineering/technology
career path.
  I have found the Allstar web site a valuable tool and since we have 40 internet terminals in our classroom we are able to use it to its potential. It is excellent in its format and understandable to all of our students since we serve those of all academic levels and abilities.
  Although our pre-engineering/ pre-technician studies program is primarily an electronics program, the aviation/aerospace portion of the program has been difficult due to a lack of instructional materials. Your site turns out to be invaluable. It is understandable and the students seem to enjoy browsing to find answers to the questions they are asked on quizzes. They launched the hot air balloons this week that they designed and built using a TQM instructional strategy and last Saturday, I was able to give several students and their parents orientation rides in my Cherokee 180.  It is great that the instruction I offer through projects, demonstrations and and lectures are reinforced by the quality Instructional tool FIU and NASA has provided. You will notice a relatively large group of new registered users today. Hopefully the number of hits recently will help demonstrate the need to continue this effort.
  We will be using navigational processes this week to teach triangulation, geometric applications, scales and rate/time calculation.