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Attach a string to the bottom of the kite. Due to the weight of the frame and kite, though, it is important that two students work together to get the kite they make in class aloft. Flying a kite is much more fun than watching. If you have your students build kites in groups to save on costs, consider allowing them to bring other kites from home on launch day. One diagonal (segment KM, the main diagonal) is the perpendicular bisector of the other diagonal (segment JL, the cross diagonal ). Note: Disjoint means that the two pairs are totally separate. Prior approval of the design is recommended. The properties of the kite are as follows: Two disjoint pairs of consecutive sides are congruent by definition. You can ask your students to come up with geometric design for their kite or you let them come up with their own designs. The big rolls of paper most schools have for making posters work well for this activity. Also don’t be surprised that the students who cut corners or haven’t been taught to measure never get their kites off the ground. Don’t be surprised if your more competitive students bring massive amounts of string so theirs can be the highest. Various on-line retailers sell kite string. They reversed the measurements on their card to quickly be able to find the angle of elevation. I had my students make them prior to flying the kites. (Click to enlarge.)ĭowels can be purchased at a craft store like Hobby Lobby or Michaels.Ī gravity protractor can be used to find the angle of the kite as it is flying. A kite can be constructed from the centers and crossing points of any two intersecting circles. Equivalently, it is a quadrilateral whose four sides can be grouped into two pairs of adjacent equal-length sides. The image below does not account for the sag in the line. A kite is a quadrilateral with reflection symmetry across one of its diagonals. The boy is 4 feet tall and holds the kite with his arms at 3 feet. In the video and photo from How High is that Kite? the kite’s string was completely unrolled so all 50 feet were in use. Similar Kites asks students to find the measurements for a smaller and a larger kite. How High is that Kite? can help start a discussion on flying kites. A kite is a prominent example of a rhombus geometric shape in real life because it typically consists of four sides that are equal in magnitude and four unequal angles. Build Your Own Kite.pdf contains a printable version of the graphic above for classroom use.

Image of a kite geometry