Crazy Kites

In this exciting activity, you will get to use their engineering design skills to make and build a kite of your own. While testing out the kite designs. you will learn about how lift and air pressure work together to make things fly!

Kites have been constructed and flown for thousands of years. They have been used for fun, for military exercises, and for scientific purposes. You may know that Benjamin Franklin used a kite to show that lightning is electricity. There is also historical evidence that in China kites were used more than 2200 years ago.

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Overview
Grades 3-8
45 min
Topics
EngineeringSTEM