Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Kite
MathWorld provides the definition and the area formula for a kite.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Discovering Properties of Parallelograms, Kites & Trapazoids
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...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Art to Zoo Kiting Up the Sky
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...
Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Soaring High With Kites
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.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Tail Acrostic Poems
In this lesson, Spring: An Alphabet Acrostic by Steven Schnur Mentor, Silver Seeds by Paul Paolilli, and Henry & The Kite Dragon by Bruce Edward Hall are used as mentor texts. Students will practice their acrostic skills on the tail...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Kites
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Apply the properties of kites.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Will It Fly?
In this lesson, students will learn about kites and gliders and how these models can help in understanding the concept of flight. Students will design and build their own balsa wood models and experiment with different control surfaces....
Read Works
Read Works: Jack's Lost Kite Passage & Question Set
[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...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Graphing Calculator Practice Problems: Quadrilaterals
Practice using your graphing calculator for constructing a parallelogram, a rhombus, a kite, a trapezoid, an isosceles trapezoid, a rectangle, and a square. If you get stumped or if you would like to check your work, then select the View...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Area and Perimeter of Rhombuses and Kites
[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...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: 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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Kites
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will move the vertices of the kite to explore how to change the shape of quadrilaterals. Click learn more to watch a video and click challenge me to answer practice question.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Interactive Quadrilaterals
Resize and rotate different types of quadrilaterals--square, rectangle, rhombus, trapezoid, and kite--while learning the definitions of these different shapes and labeling the angles and diagonals. CCSS.Math.Content.3.G.A.1 Understand...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Quadrilateral Classification
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept teaches students to classify quadrilaterals in the coordinate plane.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Trapezoids and Kites Study Guide
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide looks at properties and theorems about trapezoids and kites.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Triangles and Quadrilaterals Study Guide
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide reviews the formulas for area and perimeter of triangles and different kinds of quadrilaterals.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Area and Perimeter of Rhombuses 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...
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Area of a Kite
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.
University of Houston
University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: Franklin's Electricity
Some research puts Franklin's electrical work in the scientific and political context of his day. An interesting point of view, one not usually found in comments of Franklin and electrostatics. Done by a professor from University of...
Other
Ic Teachers: Shapes Quadrilaterals
Are you looking for a very basic website that will explain the basic properties of a quadrilateral? Use this site to learn about the properties of a square, rhombus, rectangle, parallelogram, trapezoid, and kite. There are also some...
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Inter Math: Kite
This site provides a brief definition and example of a geometric kite.
Other
The Virtual Kite Zoo
The Virtual Kite Zoo is devoted to kite flying and kite lore. You can learn kite terminology, how to tie proper knots--and teachers can find ideas to use kites in the classroom.
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute Online: Electrified Ben
This site from the Franklin Institute Online provides a somewhat simplistic but interesting tale of Ben's electrical activities. Fine link to "electricity bells", in Franklin's own words. Some other links to projects, maybe not so...
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Perimeter of a Kite
A complete reference guide to the perimeter of a kite. It provides definitions, examples, and an interactive activity that enhances further explanation. Includes links to related topics.