Practice counting in patterns and skip counting by 1, 5, and 10. Once the patterns have been taught, teams of 5 or 6 learners -- holding hands in circles -- skip count each time they collectively bounce a balloon up into the air. Early...

Daily practice develops skills! Use this half-sheet to help learners correct grammatical errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar. Today's topic is a hot-air balloon flight. 

Visualize osmosis using an interactive activity. As learners monitor a simulation, they witness the particle movement through the membrane. A balloon represents the cellular membrane and 'pops' as osmosis creates an imbalance of...

"We've got the whole world in our hands," is what your students will be singing after completing this fun geography activity. Using the included templates for the seven continents and a balloon, they create their very own globes.

Design protection from high-speed particles. The STEM lesson plan highlights why astronauts need protection from space debris. Pupils use the design process to design, build, and test a spacesuit that will protect a balloon from a...

Take flight with a fun activity focused on graphing data on a coordinate plane. As learners study the data for Granny's hot-air balloon trip, including the time of day and the distance of the balloon from the ground, they practice...

Attractive and logical instructions are provided for constructing a balloon-powered car. Young physical scientists measure the distance their car travels and record it on a pre-printed data sheet. The make alterations to improve the...

Students explore the different types of balloons.  In this materials lesson students can complete several experiments including building their own hot air balloons, making balloon animals and experimenting with static...

In this customized handwriting:  balloon activity, 1st graders change the style, font and text, then print the activity to practice printing and color the picture of the balloon.

Students demonstrate that heat can change air. They determine that hot air rises. Students construct a working model of a hot air balloon. They understand that there are two ways that a balloon can rise: it can (1) be filled with a...

Students discover the history of hot air balloons by watching one ascent.  For this physics lesson, students utilize a Montgolfier Hot Air Balloon from an earlier lesson and record the temperature, rate of ascent and the volume....

Students examine how a pollutant recovery method functions in cleaning industrial air pollution. They listen to a teacher-led discussion, conduct an experiment with balloons, static electricity, and pepper, and observe and record the...

This reading comprehension instructional activity includes a passage titled, "The Balloon Popper," as well as 5 multiple choice questions. Answers are included on page 3.

Here are 3 subtraction problems and a built-in number line ready to build algebraic reasoning skills. Little learners subtract 5 balloons from the given number to find an answer. Each problem has balloons for them to count, cross out,...

Balloons aren't just for little kids; they can teach important math concepts, too. Individuals use an interactive to continue a color pattern with balloons. They continue the pattern and write a mathematical expression to represent the...

Students study how hot air balloons were created and the different types there are.  In this density and lift lesson students build their own hot air balloon.

Students begin developing investigation skills. In this investigation skills activity, students watch a demonstration of a teacher putting a skewer into a balloon. They observe that the balloon does not pop before discussing what they...

For this reading comprehension worksheet, learners read a paragraph about a child playing with a balloon . They then answer 4 questions about the story.

Learners view a video and discuss the mechanics of a hot air balloon. They, in groups, construct a functioning hot air balloon.

In this balloon word problems worksheet, students complete word problems about balloons with one digit numbers. Students complete 5 addition and subtraction word problems.

Fourth graders observe and explain how balloons rubbed on a shirt create positive and negative charges. For this positive and negative charge lesson plan, 4th graders record their results and explain their findings.

In this black balloon instructional activity, students color the balloon in the picture the color black. Students color one balloon on this page.

In this red balloon worksheet, students color the balloon in the picture the color red. Students read the word red and color the balloon.

In this balloons coloring worksheet, students color the picture of balloons and then practice printing the word balloons by tracing the dotted lines.