July 25, 2007: Up, Up and Away!

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Activities:

1. Use magic markers to decorate a balloon to look like a hot air balloon. Write a story about you and your friends having an adventure in a hot air balloon. Tape your balloon to your story. Share your story with your friends.

2. Pretend you can take three people with you on a hot air balloon ride. What three comic strip characters would you take with you? Why?

3. Use newspaper ads to find pictures of foods you could take with you on a balloon ride. Draw a picture of a picnic basket on a piece of paper. Paste your foods in the basket.

4. Why is it important to learn about these school subjects if you want to be a hot air balloonist: (a) physics, (b) math, (c) meteorology, and (d) geography?

5. Pretend you have a hot air balloon business. Describe five different jobs you could do for people using your hot air balloon. Design a newspaper ad telling about your business.

This week's standards:

• Students understand science and technology.
• Students understand the abilities of technological design.
  
  

(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)