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Easter Egg Surprise!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students blow up the balloon to look like an egg. In this art lesson, students tear the newpaper into little pieces and dip them into the liquid starch. Students place these strips on the balloon until the balloon is completely covered....
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Static Electricity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
For this static electricity worksheet, young scholars use balloons, flannel cloths, and a plastic bag to create static electricity. Students then fill out 3 tables and answer 3 short answer questions.
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Ice Eggs

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students melt colored ice cubes which are created from a funnel, balloons, water, and food coloring. In this ice lesson plan, students put food coloring into water in a balloon, freeze it, and see how the food coloring ended up making...
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The Expanding Universe

For Students 2nd - 6th
In this expanding universe worksheet, students create a universe with balloons, clothes pins, markers, and more and see what this means for the distance between the Earth and stars. Students follow 6 directions and answer 3 questions.
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What Makes a Rocket Shoot Upward Into the Air?

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners collect data of balloons of different sizes to see which one travels the furthest when shot into the air to represent a rocket. In this rocket lesson plan, students write about which balloon traveled the furthest and why.
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Weighing air

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this weighing air worksheet, students complete an experiment where they use balloons, string, a balance, a stick, and more in order to weigh air. Students also answer 7 questions.
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Baffling Balloons

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students choose a variety of design elements to create playing squares for a challenging matching game of Concentration. They distinguish matching patterns, numbers, and colors as they test their memories. Studnets hone skills and...
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Feely Balloons

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students use their sense of touch to identify different types of solids. In this "Mystery Solids" lesson, students feel various balloons filled with items such as rice, flour, salt, beans, etc. They use their senses to come to logical...
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Earth, Moon, Mars Balloons

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students demonstrate size and orbits of Earth, Moon, and Mars. In this space science lesson plan, students will use balloons to show how the size and distance between the planets and satellite compare.
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Balloons Glyph #2

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this balloon glyph instructional activity, students reveal their preferences and personal information by the way they color the balloons. Detailed directions are provided.
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Balloon Rockets

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils build pinwheel airplanes and balloon rockets to determine which ones fly faster and which fly farther.
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Balloons and Kites

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Pupils examine a line of points through its slope. They plot points using sticky notes of a balloon's movement amd determine the slope of the lines plotted.
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Balloon Ball Bounce

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore the rebound of balls. In this energy conversion lesson, students explore the physics behind the rebound of various types of sports balls. Through the experimental design process using balloons, students investigate and...
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Helium Balloon Race

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students determine the force of a helium balloon that allows it to rise a specific distance.  In this helium lesson students calculate the amount of paper needed to construct a weight and determine the density of a piece of...
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Balloon Blending

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice blending letters and vowel sounds so that they run together smoothly, view clown poster, blend letters on balloons to form words with different letters, and read aloud story, A Cat Nap, to practice pronunciation.
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Balloons Glyph

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this balloon glyph worksheet, students follow the directions to color a bunch of balloons. Students follow 5 directions, but the end results differ according to individual information.
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Balloon Powered Race Cars

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students examine Newton's Law of Motion and use the formula to calculate speed.  For this laws of motion lesson students create a balloon powered car and calculate its speed and distance. 
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Color Word Balloons

For Students K - 3rd
In this color word balloons activity, 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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Count and Tell

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this counting instructional activity, students count and tell how many balloons there are in the picture. Students count 8 balloons total.
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Using Radiosonde Data From a Weather Balloon Launch

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Student use radiosonde data from a weather balloon launch to distinguish the characteristics of the lower atmosphere. They learn the layers of the atmosphere. They graph real atmospheric data.
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Memorial Day picture

For Students K - 2nd
In this Memorial Day worksheet, students color a picture of balloons and trace and write the phrase "May 31, 2010". Students color, trace, and write one time each.
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Balloon Rocket

For Students 4th - 5th
In this friction investigation learning exercise, students follow the directions to construct a balloon rocket. Students use a string lubricated with soap and a drinking straw with a balloon. This is a page from the UK.
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Entrepreneur Profit Balloon Game with Physical Education

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore business by participating in physical activities. For this entrepreneur lesson, 4th graders define profit and how it is necessary to run a successful business. Students pop balloons with monetary values inside and...
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Space Awareness

Water is a Heat Sink

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
One of the key objectives of Europe's Copernicus Earth program is to monitor the temperatures of the oceans and seas on Earth. Young scholars learn the effects of different heat capacities through two experiments. These experiments...

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