Aviation Career WebQuest

look to the sky

Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in each curve of an airfoil, in each angle between strut and wire, in the gap of a spark plug or the color of the exhaust flame. There was freedom in the unlimited horizon, on the open fields where one landed. A pilot was surrounded by beauty of earth and sky. He brushed treetops with the birds, leapt valleys and rivers, explored the cloud canyons he had gazed at as a child. Adventure lay in each puff of wind.

I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because of its very association with the element of danger they dreaded, because it was freer of the earth to which they were bound. In flying, I tasted a wine of the gods of which they could know nothing. Who valued life more highly, the aviators who spent it on the art they loved, or these misers who doled it out like pennies through their antlike days? I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.

— Charles A. Lindbergh, 'The Spirit of St. Louis

process

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES

1. Explore the Multiple Intelligences Theory . If you need to know more, take the links at the bottom of Thomas Armstrong's page.

2. Choose one Multiple Intelligence Inventory listed below. Write down the two intelligences that are your strengths. If you have three strengths, write down all three. You can print the inventory at:

MI Inventory

Surfaquarium

Projects: MI Inventory

3. Go to The Multiple Intelligences to find out more information about your intelligences. On a separate sheet of paper:

- List 5 things people with YOUR intelligence are good at

- List 3 careers that fit your intelligence

- Do you agree with this information?

- Does it describe you? If not, go back and take the inventory again.

Read about the other intelligences. On the same sheet of paper answer the following:

- which one do you think is least like you?

- why?

- what challenges could you face in your career choice because of this?

- how can you improve your abilities in that intelligence area?

4. Go to Walter McKenzie's Multiple Intelligences Pages . Click on "The Intelligences" link. Here you will find links to each intelligence. Visit a minimum or two sites under one of your strengths.

5. Decide which intelligence you will use to search for your career. You should use the intelligence that is YOUR STRENGTH!

Ways to teach using this intelligence can be found at:

Multiple Intelligences -- Practice

CAREER