Air Conditioning

First graders will soon be taught that two plus two makes four--but four airplanes, not four apples.

At Columbia University Teachers College last week a group of educators, mindful of an air-minded world and with the blessing of the Civil Aeronautics Administration and the U.S. Office of Education, began work on a manual showing how aviation can be welded into every subject in the curriculum. Under Teachers College's Professor Nickolaus L. Engelhardt, a staff of research experts was busy assembling lessons from the air:

> Spelling classes will learn to spell (and define) drag, lift, stratosphere, bomber.

> Nature classes will learn that milkweed and dandelions disperse their seeds by means of tiny parachutes; that a maple seed drops like a helicopter.

> Social science classes will learn how aviation is likely to affect cities (e.g., make them smaller).

> Biggest change will be in geography. Pupils will reckon distance not in miles but in flying time, will learn to divide the earth not into eastern and western but northern and southern hemispheres.

Meanwhile, CAA had launched another school project: the Air Training Cadets of America. Its object: pre-flight training of high-school boys in aviation mathematics, aircraft identification, meteorology, navigation. From this course, CAA hopes eventually to get 2,000,000 Army & Navy airmen.

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