WHY? Kites provide a "hook" to learning through art, craft skills, engineering, mathematics, science, physics, aeronautics, history, language arts, poetry, writing, drama, and history. Kites provide an excellent vehicle for a multi-cultural community or school event. They are a fun activity that can be enjoyed by people of all ages. Because there is no one right way to design of fly a kite, success in kite flying is attainable for everyone. Even Charlie Brown can fly a kite. Maybe he just needs a little help from the rest of us who are also working on the trial and error of flight. After all, isn't that what the great inventors did? They kept working and experimenting until they learned what worked. They learned from failure. That is the essence of invention and progress. What a great lesson for children to learn. For the poetic inventor spirit in all of us we can make our kite and watch it soar. In doing so, our final success and triumphant feeling soars. ASSESSMENT: Can the student communicate what they observed?

Student is able to communicate that a kite is lifted into the air and the wind moves it through the sky. Older students can describe how Newton's Law and Bernoulli's Theorem affects kite flight. Younger children can describe what things are needed to build a kite and that it is lifted into the air by air currents and carried by the wind. Student is able to communicate most of the reasons of how a kite is lifted into the air and the wind moves it through the sky. Older students can describe most of the reasons how Newton's Law and Bernoulli's Theorem affects kite flight. Younger children can describe most of the things that are needed to build a kite and that it is lifted into the air by air currents and carried by the wind. Student is able to communicate some of the reasons of how a kite is lifted into the air and the wind moves it through the sky. Older students can describe some of the reasons how Newton's Law and Bernoulli's Theorem affects kite flight. Younger children can describe some of the things that are needed to build a kite and that it is lifted into the air by air currents and carried by the wind. Student is able to communicate one of the reasons of how a kite is lifted into the air and the wind moves it through the sky. Older students can describe one of the reasons how Newton's Law and Bernoulli's Theorem affects kite flight. Younger children can describe one of the things that are needed to build a kite and that it is lifted into the air by air currents and carried by the wind.

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