Our mission is to instill a life-long passion for learning in every student. To this goal, our Teacher’s Guides are designed to enhance your lesson plan with background information, aeronautics vocabulary, book lists, and classroom activities. Each activity strives to integrate aeronautic and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S.T.E.M.) related lessons with hands-on exercises. 

Our teaching guides also provide a springboard for learning that can be easily incorporated into your lesson plan. The science, math, history, and art connections are endless – just use the resource page at the back of our guide to fortify and expand your current curriculum.

Educational Packet
Educational Packet 2

Whether you teach an entire class or home school your own children, our Teacher Resource Center will have everything you need to create a comprehensive curriculum in aeronautics. The center will include lessons in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, and house numerous materials and books that can be checked out. 

We are fortunate to have materials from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Civil Air Patrol (CAP), Boeing, Beech, Raytheon, Cessna, Air National Guard, Air Force, Army, Navy, Star Base, American Meteorological Society, National Planetary Society, National Space Society, other space and aviation museums, and numerous organizations affiliated with the aerospace industry and aerospace education.

We will also offer various workshops and monthly make-it and take-it sessions where teachers can create an activity to take back to their classrooms.

Looking for aerospace or science-themed classroom activities? Browse our selection of downloadable teaching tools to help students learn more about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Paper Airplane: Print full size on 8 1/2″ x 11″ paper, decorate, fold and the fly.
Dot to Dot: Connect the dots and what do you find?
Airplane Word Find
Rocket Word Find
Maze: Help the Pilot Find Their Plane
Maze: Help the Plane
Crossword

Disclaimer
The following sites are resources for various aspects of aviation education. The Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum and the Captain Michael King Smith Educational Institute has no control over and does not necessarily endorse their content. Please notify us if you find that one of these links is not working, or if you know of a site that would be good to add. 

Aerospace Education

• NASA/Oregon State Grant Consortium Home Page
• Fun, educational activities from the FAA
• Jim Walker’s American Junior Classics
• Aeroplane Monthly Online

Teacher Curriculum and Teaching Aids

• Aviation Curriculum Resources from the FAA

How Things Fly

• AvKids
• Nasa for Kids
• Build and Fly

Professional

• Free online aviation courses
• Online Flight-Planning Tools

A very complete listing of aviation and aerospace museums

• The American Association of Museums
• Naval Historical Center
• Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
• The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum’s Collection
• The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum’s Research Departments
• National Archives and Records Administration
• United States Air Force Museum Archives and Research Information
• The Air Force History Support Office (AFHSO) at Bolling Air Force Base, Washington, D.C. responsible for writing books, monographs, studies, and reports to preserve the history of the U.S. Air Force. The AFHSO also provides historical information, analysis, and perspective to Air Force leaders and their staffs to support planning, policy development, and decision making.
• Air Force Historical Research Agency (AFHRA) at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. The primary repository of historical information, our office responds to requests for information from private organizations, government agencies, and the general public.
• Archival Files of the Air Force Enlisted Heritage Research Institute
• National Personnel Records Center, for US Military
• National Women in Aviation Museum, Centerville, Ohio
• Air Force Armament Museum, Eglin AFB, FL
• Airmen Memorial Museum (AMM)
• Air Force Association
• Army Center for Military History Website
• Museum of Flight (Seattle, Washington)

Archival Files of the Air Force Enlisted Heritage Research Institute

• National Personnel Records Center, for US Military
• National Women in Aviation Museum, Centerville, Ohio
• Air Force Armament Museum, Eglin AFB, FL
• Airmen Memorial Museum (AMM)
• Air Force Association
• Army Center for Military History Website

Publications

• Air Force Magazine
• Airman Magazine
• Air Force Library Publications Page
• Enlisted History, SNCOA Library Bibliography

Other Aviation Sites and Attractions

• Aviation News by McGraw-Hill’s AVIATION WEEK
• Flying Clippers
• Women Pilots of WWII
• The Ninety-Nines
• The Experimental Aircraft Association
• Soaring Society of America
• Academy of Model Aeronautics
• The DC-3 Hangar
• Microsoft Flight Simulator
• Fighter Planes
• Chuck Yeager Home Page
• SR-71 Online
• Historic Wings
• Dave English Home Page
• All Aviation Flightline Online The museum is thankful to the AAFO web designer, who provided much of the content for this site, and designed an earlier version of the “Spruce Goose” web site.
• Civil Air Patrol (national, local)
• BD-5 Web Site
• The Evergreen Aero Modelers
• Trip Kids Travel Buddy and Souvenior Stamp Program

Welcome to the Library and Archives Resource Center

The Library and Archives collections are prized treasures of the Institute and many items are irreplaceable. The Library is maintained for the purpose of historical and academic research. It is solely a reference library and is available to the public only by appointment.

We actively collect library and research material to compliment our educational mission. The Institute collects, preserves and interprets the history of aviation culture through its collections, educational programs, exhibits, research projects, library and archives.

We invite you to consider us a worthy repository for your aviation related objects, such as aircraft, armament, art, literature, maps, memorabilia, photos, personal papers and equipment, power plants, uniforms, vehicles and so forth. To offer items of historical aviation interest to the Institute, please contact a collections department staff member. We are a 501(c)(3) charitable organization and as such, your contributions are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.

The museum seeks excellence and credibility by striving to meet the accreditation standards of the American Association of Museums. The Institute adheres to a Board approved collection management policy that spells out the management of our collections, in order to ensure adequate responsibility for their safety, proper care and appropriate use.

Access to the Museum Archives, the Evergreen Corporate Archives and the Photo Archives is through the Collections Department staff by appointment only. The user must complete a Research Library Usage Form.