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Science Buddies: Up, Up, and Away in Your Own Hot Air Balloon! ActivityScience Buddies: Up, Up, and Away in Your Own Hot Air Balloon! Activity
Publisher
Science Buddies
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Grade
9th - 10th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Types
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Lexile Measures
1050L
Activity

Science Buddies: Up, Up, and Away in Your Own Hot Air Balloon!

Curated by ACT

In this science fair project, students will make hot-air balloons using a toaster and dry-cleaning bags, and see how the size of the balloon affects its flight. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and introduction, followed by a section on terms, concepts, and questions, bibliography, list of materials and equipment, experimental procedure, suggestions on how to vary the experiment, plus a focus on the sort of careers this experiment might relate to.

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Concepts

flight, archimedes' principle, expansion

Additional Tags

air density, dry cleaner, expansion of gases, hot air, hot-air balloon, science fair project, science buddies, balloon

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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