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Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Book Summary for the Kite Runner

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a wordlist (in order of appearance by chapters) and a fill-in-the-blank word puzzles for The Kite Runner.
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Smithsonian Institution

Lemelson Center: Spark!lab: Create Indoor Kite [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Everything ESL

Everything Esl: Soaring High With Kites

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Mississippi Kite

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Discovering Properties of Parallelograms, Kites & Trapazoids

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Area of a Kite

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Kids' Wings

Texas Bluebonnet Books: The Kite Fighter

For Students 3rd - 5th
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.
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Patrick McSherry

Spanish American War Centennial: Experiments With War Kites

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Kites

For Students 5th - 8th
[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.
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Just Books Read Aloud

Just Books Read Aloud: Arnold Lobel: Days With Frog and Toad: The Kite

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Just Books Read Aloud

Just Books Read Aloud: Hamlet and the Enormous Chinese Dragon Kite

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Other

The Virtual Kite Zoo

For Students 3rd - 6th
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.
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Other

Up to Ten: Make an Insect Kite

For Students Pre-K - 1st
"Make a giant insect kite that you'll be able to fly around your garden or the local park."
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Area and Perimeter of Rhombuses and Kites

For Students 5th - 7th
[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.
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Other

Plane Math: Activities: Go Fly a Kite

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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PBS

Pbs: Benjamin Franklin: Make a Kite

For Students 6th - 8th
This PBS resource is an activity created by Benjamin Franklin about making a kite and how it can function using wind.
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Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Kite

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about kites with this handy reference guide. Provides a detailed definition and an interactive activity that enhances further explanation. Includes links to related topics.
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Quia

Ixl Learning: Kites

For Students 3rd - 5th
Brush up on your math skills relating to kites.
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Geometry Help

Geometry Help: Kites (Deltoids)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explains the basic concept of kites with step-by-step instructions and methods for solving specific problems on your own relating to this topic.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Snail Kite

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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University of Georgia

University of Georgia: Inter Math: Kite

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a brief definition and example of a geometric kite.
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Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Perimeter of a Kite

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Our Runaway Kite" by Lucy Maud Montgomery

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "Our Runaway Kite" by Lucy Maud Montgomery. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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Read Works

Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "The Treasure Map"

For Students K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This paired text focuses on the theme of Discovery; it includes two reading passages, "Jack's Lost Kite" and "The Treasure Map," comprehension questions for each passage, and a combined set of questions...

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