CAP Annapolis Composite Squadron (MD-028)
Teachers
Put Civil Air Patrol to Work Inside Your Classrooms
If you’re an educator, Civil Air Patrol has programs to help you teach ordinary subjects in an extraordinary way, no matter what grade you teach!
CAP has a special Aerospace Education Membership program just for teachers. With CAP’s free curricula and classroom materials, you can introduce the wonders of space and aviation into many different subject areas. Our hands-on exercises and national standards-based materials and textbooks will hold the interest of your hard-to-motivate students, and take your achievers to even higher levels.
Each year, CAP sponsors the nation’s premier aerospace education conference. CAP also supports more than 100 aerospace education workshops throughout the Washington DC/Baltimore area and the nation, which are listed in the bi-monthly CAP AE newsletter, along with news, teaching tips, teacher profiles and the latest in available grants. Teachers who consistently use aerospace education in their classrooms are eligible to receive national awards for excellence in the field.
As a teacher, you can also benefit from CAP by introducing your older students to the CAP cadet program. This multi-step training gives young men and women a chance to do meaningful volunteer work while developing valuable leadership and technical skills, physical fitness, personal responsibility and moral values. Cadets also have a chance to learn about aviation and space, as well as military history and customs. CAP cadet training can help your students become more disciplined and motivated to excel. Also, CAP service may qualify for the Maryland School-Based Service-Learning requirement for high school students.
Aerospace Education EXcellence Program (AEX) and Aerospace Education Membership
The Civil Air Patrol is offering a very popular program free to its members that involves doing hands-on aviation and space-related activities with students. It is called AEX, and the acronym stands for “Aerospace Education EXcellence."
Participants receive full-color books that feature national standards-based aerospace hands-on activities. The requirements are simple: complete six aerospace activities and one two-hour or longer field experience (space day, trip to the airport or museum, etc.) to earn a beautiful wooden plaque plus color certificates for your students. The activities are designed to fit into any curriculum. Schools' state-approved curriculum may replace or supplement the AEX activities created for this program. (Lesson plans for supplemental activities need to be attached to final reporting form.)
All of the projects featured in AEX I (Volumes 1 and 2) (K-5 books) or AEX II (Volumes 1 and 2) (6-12 books) are very “teacher-friendly” and involve readily available, low-cost materials. Further information may be obtained from the brochure available through the link, below.
Download a brochure for the AEX Program and Aerospace Education Membership
Fly-A-Teacher Program
The Fly-A-Teacher Program provides the opportunity for teachers to experience orientation flights in CAP aircraft. Teachers can receive these orientation flights following optional workshops at local area airports and can then share their experiences with their students.
For More Information...
Please feel free to contact us at the email address below for the Annapolis Composite Squadron to obtain information and assistance in bringing Aerospace Education to your school, your teachers, and to your students.