Vocabulary University
My vocabulary.com: Book Summary for the Kite Runner
This is a wordlist (in order of appearance by chapters) and a fill-in-the-blank word puzzles for The Kite Runner.
Smithsonian Institution
Lemelson Center: Spark!lab: Create Indoor Kite [Pdf]
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.
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.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Mississippi Kite
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.
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...
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.
Kids' Wings
Texas Bluebonnet Books: The Kite Fighter
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.
Patrick McSherry
Spanish American War Centennial: Experiments With War Kites
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.
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.
Just Books Read Aloud
Just Books Read Aloud: Arnold Lobel: Days With Frog and Toad: The Kite
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.
Just Books Read Aloud
Just Books Read Aloud: Hamlet and the Enormous Chinese Dragon Kite
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.
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.
Other
Up to Ten: Make an Insect Kite
"Make a giant insect kite that you'll be able to fly around your garden or the local park."
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Area and Perimeter of Rhombuses and Kites
[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.
Other
Plane Math: Activities: Go Fly a Kite
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.
PBS
Pbs: Benjamin Franklin: Make a Kite
This PBS resource is an activity created by Benjamin Franklin about making a kite and how it can function using wind.
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Kite
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.
Geometry Help
Geometry Help: Kites (Deltoids)
Explains the basic concept of kites with step-by-step instructions and methods for solving specific problems on your own relating to this topic.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Snail Kite
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.
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Inter Math: Kite
This site provides a brief definition and example of a geometric kite.
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.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Our Runaway Kite" by Lucy Maud Montgomery
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.)
Read Works
Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "The Treasure Map"
[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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