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Kites as Education: Wind Origins

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This "kite science" site offers information on wind and the atmospheric conditions that cause it. From "Principles of Aeronautics."

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Concepts
air currents, atmospheric conditions, ocean currents, trade winds, weather
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Additional Tags
atmosphere, atmospheric currents, doldrums, earth science, equator, global winds, horse latitudes, intertropical disturbance, jet stream, polar easterlies, tropics, westerlies, wind patterns, winds, coriolis force, air movements
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information
NGSS
MS-ESS2-6