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Why Do Hot Air Balloons Float?

For Students 9th - 12th
In this Boyle's Law worksheet, high schoolers solve eight problems using the inverse relationship between the volume of a gas and the pressure of a gas at a constant temperature.
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Why Do Hot Air Balloons Float?

For Students 9th - 12th
In this Charles' Law worksheet, students solve 8 gas law problems where the pressure is constant and the volume varies directly with the temperature.
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Float or Sink?

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Experiment with mass and density as scholars figure out what makes things float or sink. First, they watch a podcast introducing these concepts. Be sure to use the comprehension question to test their understanding. Young scientists...
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Models for Teaching Addition and Subtraction of Integers

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Positive and negative numbers are everywhere in the world around us. Whether it's charged particles in atoms, a hot air balloon rising and falling in the sky, or a series of bills and checks being delivered in the mail, this resource...
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Strange New Planet

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
The first remote sensors were people in hot air balloons taking photographs of Earth to make maps. Expose middle school learners to space exploration with the use of remote sensing. Groups explore and make observations of a new planet by...
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Warm Air versus Cold Air

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students discover that warm air takes up more space than cold air.  In this science lesson, students perform 4 experiments using balloons to determine that the molecules of warm air are more spread out than those of cold air.
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The Properties of Air

For Teachers 1st
First graders draw conclusions about the properties of air. In this properties of air lesson, the teacher demonstrates several properties of air and guides students through discovering that air is colorless, tasteless, odorless, exerts...
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Convection in a Pan

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students watch a demonstration using a plastic bag and a hair dryer to create a hot air balloon. After the demonstration, they discuss the results and whether or not hot water behaves the in the same manner as hot air. They conduct...
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Why Could the Hindenburg Float?

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders experiment with floating and sinking objects and heavy and light liquids, using correct terms, like density, to explain what happens.  In this Hindenburg activity, 10th graders watch a demonstration called the invisible...
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The Pressure's Off II - Flight

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners investigate what allows air plane to fly, why birds can fly and why people can't. They construct a giant hot air balloon that can be launched using only a hair dryer.
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Up, Up and Away with the Montgolfier Balloon

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students construct hot air balloons. In this science lesson, students assemble their own balloon using tissue paper and glue. They time the duration of the flight, record data and calculate team averages.
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Fun with Balloons

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders design their own hot air balloon. In this science activity, 5th graders investigate how factors like weight and sizes affect a balloon's lifting power. They also write math problems based on facts written in the book "The...
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Balloon Writing

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this writing activity worksheet, students create a poem within a balloon utilizing a word box of words to choose from. Students also design their own balloon and write a short description of it on paper.
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Color Word Balloons

For Students K - 3rd
In this color word balloons learning exercise, students color six hot air balloons the color that is written underneath each balloon. Students utilize the colors of yellow, green, blue, orange, red and violet.
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Printable Story Starter: The Get-Away

For Students 3rd - 4th
This fun, creative writing prompt invites young writers to continue the story of Boe and Tim, who discover a hot air balloon while escaping from their big sisters. The worksheet provides a space where learners can finish the middle and...
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Transportation

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Explore the world of transportation using this ESL presentation. With pictures and labels for all kinds of transportation, including airplanes, hot air balloons, and race cars, the slide show is great for reviewing vocabulary from your...
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The Big Balloon

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a paragraph about a child playing with a balloon . They then answer 4 questions about the story.
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Honors Chemistry Ideal Gas Law

For Students 10th - 12th
In this ideal gas law worksheet, learners are given a problem to solve using a hot air balloon. They are given the volume, mass, temperature of the air inside the balloon and the temperature outside the balloon. They determine if the...
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Air Exerting Pressure

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students explore air pressure. In this science lesson plan, students show how air occupies space and exerts pressure and learn how great the effects of air pressure can be.
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Shrinking Air

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this science investigation worksheet, students follow the listed procedures to find out how temperature affects air pressure as they heat and cool balloons.
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Air: Demonstrating Its Presence and Effects

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of air. In this gravity lesson, students perform various experiments that deal with gravity, air resistance, and air pressure.
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Aircraft

For Teachers 8th - 12th
A variety of concepts are covered in this PowerPoint which gives the main engineering points of different aircraft types. Each slide details the engineering behind non-rigid and rigid categories of lighter or non-lighter than air...
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Up, Up, and Away

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research hot-ballooning using Internet resources including an around-the-world balloon flight. They determine fact from opinion, examine point of view, and determine main idea, and details. They write a journal entry taking the...
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Rising Air

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the concept of rising air in the formation of clouds and precipitation. In this rising air lesson, students conduct an experiment with hot and cold water that shows how warm water rises due to thermal buoyancy. They...

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