Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Let's Go Fly a Kite!
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...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: The Novel Project: Novel Choices
This lesson focuses on selecting a novel for the novel project. It features a list of 11 contemporary novels, along with their authors and a brief summary of each to help students make their choices. It also includes links to the rubric...
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 plan directs students in writing kite poems. The other includes...
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.
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."
PBS
Idaho Public Television: Birds of Prey Facts
Dialogue for Kids, a program on Idaho Public Television, offers facts, information, and images of birds of prey. Learn what makes a bird a raptor, what raptors look like in the sky, threats that face these birds, and more! Classroom...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Tail Acrostic Poems
In this activity, 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...
Other
Database of Award Winning Children's Literature
This is a phenomenal resource. It allows the user to create a reading list of quality children's literature based of choices such as reading level, type of book, genre, ethnicity, gender, etc. In addition, one can determine if a book won...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Gigantic Triangles: Measuring Altitude (Inclinometer)
If you've ever wondered how tall that bridge is, or how high your kite was, then this could be a good project for you. You'll learn how you can use the mathematics of right triangles to measure the height of an object with two...
Success Link
Success Link: Flying Into Spring
Here are two lesson plans that apply geometric concepts to design objects. The first involves learners as a group following step by step instructions on making a kite. After the review of geometry vocabulary, in cooperative groups the...