air and wind

Science A23: Kites and Wind

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Award-winning video and lesson investigations for young children on the topic of air and wind.

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Video and lesson investigations on the topic of air and wind. Key concepts include:

  • Kites are designed to fly in the wind.
  • Without wind they cannot fly.
  • The power of moving air can be felt in the hands that control the kite.
  • Flying a kite is a good way of demonstrating that air moves.
  • They show the force of air movement or wind.
  • Air is a mixture of invisible gases that surrounds the planet Earth.
  • The movement of air, or wind, around the globe is a result of the differences in temperatures at different places on Earth.
  • The warm air near the Earth’s equator expands and rises; the cooler air from the
  • Earth’s poles contracts and sinks, moving towards the area vacated by the equator’s warm, rising air.
  • This action causes global wind patterns.

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