By making a simple sled kite from the template provided and using the suggestions in the Science Buddies project, you can experiment with variables that test different aspects of flight. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up...

If you are interested in aerodynamics, wait for a windy day and go fly a kite. This Science Buddies project gives you many ideas to investigate as experiment with shape, size, and ways to fly the kite. The Science Buddies project ideas...

In this science fair project, use a fan and an anemometer to test various kite designs to see which will fly best in low wind speed. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Apply the properties of kites.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept teaches students the properties of kites and how to apply them.

In this activity, students construct kites and investigate their properties. They also relate the properties to squares and rhombi.

Students build a tetrahedral kite and test it out. While building they are learning about flight and the manufacturing process

This article provides a brief outline on the history of kites as well as information on the forces of kite flight. There are a couple lesson plans included. One lesson directs students in writing kite poems. The other includes...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary text passage shares the story of a boy named Jack who has lost his kite. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also...

MathWorld provides the definition and the area formula for a kite.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept teaches students to calculate the area and perimeter of rhombuses and kites. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional...

CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide looks at properties and theorems about trapezoids and kites.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students calculate the area and perimeter of a rhombus or kite. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and...

In this brief talk, Saul Griffith unveils the invention his new company Makani Power has been working on: giant kite turbines that create surprising amounts of clean, renewable energy. [5:22]

This page offers a The Kite Runner wordlist and vocabulary puzzles.

This is a wordlist (in order of appearance by chapters) and a fill-in-the-blank word puzzles for The Kite Runner.

Learn how Ben Franklin, Alexander Graham Bell, the Wright Brothers, and Guglielmo Marconi used kites as tools to spur innovation. Then follow the directions provided to create your own kite for flying indoors.

Dynamic unit on kites which can be used to teach about weather, wind, flight, and inventions. Teach students about the importance of kites in many cultures and the significance of kites as a scientific discovery.

An abundance of facts, photos, and sounds of the Mississippi Kite are presented on this thorough site. A menu of topics includes: cool facts, description, range, habitat, reproduction, and conservation status.

This activity allows the teacher to cover the properties of a parallelogram, rectangle, rhombus, square, kite, and trapezoid in two days (90 min. block scheduling) Using a group setting students discover these properties using the Cabri...

A complete reference guide to finding the area of a kite. It provides definitions, examples, and an interactive activity that enhances further explanation. Includes links to related topics.

This site has a book summary of "The Kite Fighter" by Linda Sue Park. There are also many research links related to the book for teachers and students.

An account reported in the New York Times, August 1 of 1989 describes experiments with war kites which were being done over David Island's, Fort Slocum and Glen Island, New York demonstrating how an enemy could be destroyed by dynamite.