The balloon slowly begin to inflate. The heat and hair dryers were working. The hot air was filling the inside of the white container and it was taking the shape of an egg-shaped balloon. Big pause, more hot air -- and then there is lift-off!
No this is not a retake of the recent bad news story - this is a 9th grade science class. For four periods today and four periods tomorrow, teams of students will be working to make their class made project fly into space.
Part of the project relates to heated molecules and infection and all that time of stuff. Part is a lab reading of distance traveled. Part is problem solving - how can it fly higher, further? What do we need to do differently to improve our results?
How do we take the theories and put them into practice? How do we describe in scientific terms he everyday occurrences? How do we work together to achieve a specific goal? How do we review data, formulate new questions and move to resolution? All of this with hot air balloons!
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