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Up In The Air

For Students 7th - 10th
In this up in the air worksheet, students, with a partner, brainstorm and discuss as many different ways of flying as possible, review a list of sixteen actions and events people experience when traveling and start a conversation with...
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THE TRAVELS OF BABAR: An Adventure in Scales

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners locate and identify the seven continents. They use longitude and latitude in establishing a location. Students enhance the knowledge of geographical location with cultures. Individuals or small groups research multiple aspects...
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Sink or Float: Exploring the Laws of Buoyancy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the relationship between density and buoyancy. After watching a video explaining buoyancy, students discuss displacement and floating. Middle schoolers have a raft building competition. Afterward, they conduct...
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Balloon Jets

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners investigate how fuel amount affects the distance traveled by balloons. In this physics lesson plan, students collect data and create a pictograph. They interpret data and formulate a conclusion.
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Balloon Fiesta

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Pupils participate in a math activity that reinforces basic fact strategies including counting on from a greater number. They interact with pictures of hot-air balloons and discuss word and sentence equations that deal with how many...
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Diffusion Through Balloons

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students observe the diffusion of air molecules through a balloon. In this chemistry and molecules lesson plan, students fill balloons with air and a scented substance and observe whether the scented air is able to permeate the balloon.
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What A Gas!

For Teachers K - 4th
Learners study various aspects of air. In this science lesson plan, students discover that air occupies space, understand the visual effects of air, and explain how air exerts force.
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Air Pressure

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students investigate the basic principles of air pressure.  In this experimental lesson students use materials to create several different experiments that help to explain air pressure and friction.
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Flight

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students research flight and to try and put the events of Kitty Hawk into proper perspective. They look at kites, the lateen sail, flight toys (old and new), hot air balloons, propulsion units, hang gliders, and the men who made them.
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Weather

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners read a weather map. Using the local newspaper, Columbus Dispatch, small groups investigate that air has pressure and that temperature and pressure are inversely related in weather. They display their findings on a graph or...
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Solids, Liquids, and Gases

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore solids, liquids, and gasses and categorize and describe the three states of matter. In this chemistry lesson, students categorize items as solid, liquid, or gas based on the definitions given by the teacher. Students...
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Gases

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders work with gases to determine what the effects of temperature are on volume and air pressure by working with balloons. Also, they experiment with vinegar and baking soda. They predict the outcomes of these experiments, and...
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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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Airplane Mathematics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The history of aerodynamics is rich with experimentation and international collaboration. Author Joyce Bryant relays this dynamic past and provides math word problems using the formula of lift, the force that makes airplanes fly. She...
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What Makes the Wind Blow?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Student study the properties of wind. They make a miniature hot-air balloon and compose diamond-shaped poems about the wind. They explain that as the sun warms air around the earth, the air rises. Colder air then moves in to fill the...
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Science: The Changing Life of Air Pressure

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders observe demonstrations how heated air rises and becomes a low pressure area. After watching several teacher-conducted experiments, 4th graders, in groups, discuss and answer questions in their journals. Finally, they...
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Kenan Fellows

Sensors in Chemistry

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The Environmental Protection Agency monitors sensors to track air pollution and set clean air standards. Enthusiastic young scientists use similar sensors to gather data in their area and then apply the gas laws and conservation of...
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Causal Patterns in Air Pressure Phenomena

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students consider the relationship between pressure and temperature. They observe a demonstration and explore the relationship between heat and volume when pressure remains constant. Students discuss relational causality and consider...
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Puppy Valentine's Day Coloring Page

For Students Pre-K - K
In this coloring worksheet, students examine a black line drawing of a puppy in a heart-shaped hot air balloon. Students color the Valentine's Day picture.
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The Universe

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
Young scientists create a simulation of Hubble's law. Introducing the Big Bang Theory using balloons and a simple lab worksheet, scholars complete a data table and perform analysis.
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The Pressure's Off

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students investigate air pressure with four hands-on activities. They observe experiments by viewing Take a Look 2 #21.
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Convection Activities

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students conduct a series of hands-on activities to demonstrate that heated air expands and that warm air rises because it is less dense.
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Pressure and Volume of Gases

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate pressure and volume as they relate to gases. In this pressure and volume lesson plan, students observe multiple demonstrations related to air pressure. The develop an understanding of the relationship between...
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Matter and Molecular Motion

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders define the states of matter and their properties. They demonstrate the air is matter and observe the effect of molecular motion through these activities.

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