[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.

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...

[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.

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...

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.

[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.

A video of the book "Days With Frog and Toad: The Kite", written by Arnold Lobel. Just Books Read Aloud is a site that includes children's books read aloud by normal (but enthusiastic) readers.

A video of the book "Hamlet and the Enormous Chinese Dragon Kite", written by Brian Lies. Just Books Read Aloud is a site that includes children's books read aloud by normal (but enthusiastic) readers.

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.

"Make a giant insect kite that you'll be able to fly around your garden or the local park."

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students are given the two diagonals of a kite of rhombus and are to determine the area and perimeter. Click challenge me to answer practice questions and click learn more to watch a video.

Students work in groups to build their own kite. The activity explores estimation, geometry, measurement, and patterns. The resource consists of a lesson plan, group activity instructions, lesson overview, and an expert page.

Brush up on your math skills relating to kites.

Description, similar species, range, food, conservation status, and other names are the topics discussed on this informative site. Listen to the sounds of the Snail Kite on this site as well.