Design and Technology Project

Topics include:

• Different shaped kites
  • Single line kites, two line kites and four line kites
  • How do you steer a kite
  • Why kites have tails
  • The parts of a kite
    • The sail
    • The keel
    • The spars / sticks
    • The line
    • The tail
  • Uses for a kite
  • What do wings do?
  • What makes a kite fly high
  • What makes a kite fly fast
• Working kites
  • Box kites for weather forecasting
  • Marconi aerial – first radio message across the Atlantic used kites to hold up the aerial
  • Gibson Girl
  • Man lifting kites which were what the first aeroplane developed from
  • Kite snow skiing for exploring the Arctic