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Flying Talk..Talk with Air, Part 1: Hot Air Balloons Lynne H. Hehr STEM Center for Mathematics and Science Education Arkansas NASA Educator Resource Center University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Montgolfier Balloon 1782 - 1783
Explorer II 1935 1st use of aerial photography
Facts • 1960 – world original space dive: Joseph Kittinger high altitude parachute jump • 1978 – Double Eagle II 1st balloon (helium) to cross the Atlantic Ocean • 1981 – Double Eagle V 1st balloon to cross the Pacific Ocean • 1999 – first around the world flight • 2012 – Supersonic Skydive by Felix Baumgartner
Balloon Uses Today • Study astronomy, magnetic fields, cosmic dust, biology • Warfare • Logging operations – for hauling logs • Fun and Sports • Weather forecasting • War against drug traffic
Integration - Mathematics Balloonists like to fly together. Sometimes there will be 40 to 50 balloons “flying” together. Each balloon basket can carry 3 or 4 people. If there are 45 balloons and 3 passengers in each balloon basket, how many passengers are there all together?
Integration - Art Supply art supplies and have your students draw pictures to put on the sides of hot-air balloons that will fly over your city to advertise the best-ever chocolate chip ice cream.
Integration - Writing Balloons are a most unusual flying machine. As a class pretend that you are taking a trip in a balloon. Write a tale of your trip.
How To Make A Hot Air Balloon • Glue 4 tissue sheets together – 8 times • Fold all glued sheets lengthwise • Stack all sheets along fold • Top with pattern and clamp together • Cut all sheets along pattern edge • Glue, glue, glue • Top with tissue “lid” • Bottom it with straw circle