Transcript Hot Air Balloons - Center for Math and Science Education

Flights of Fancy, Part 1:
Hot Air Balloons
Lynne H. Hehr
STEM Center for Mathematics and Science Education
Arkansas NASA Educator Resource Center
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Montgolfier Balloon
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Balloons In Military Aviation
Explorer II
1935
1st use
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aerial photography
World’s Largest Balloon
High Altitude Balloons
Facts
• 1960 – world original space dive: Joseph
Kittinger high altitude parachute jump
• 1978 – Double Eagle II 1st balloon (helium) to
cross the Atlantic Ocean
• 1981 – Double Eagle V 1st balloon to cross the
Pacific Ocean
• 1999 – first around the world flight
• 2012 – Supersonic Skydive by Felix Baumgartner
Balloon Uses Today
• Study astronomy, magnetic fields, cosmic dust,
biology
• Warfare
• Logging operations – for hauling logs
• Fun and Sports
• Weather forecasting
• War against drug traffic
Integration - Mathematics
Balloonists like to fly together. Sometimes
there will be 40 to 50 balloons “flying”
together. Each balloon basket can carry 3 or
4 people. If there are 45 balloons and 3
passengers in each balloon basket, how
many passengers are there all together?
Integration - Art
Supply art supplies and have your students
draw pictures to put on the sides of hot-air
balloons that will fly over your city to
advertise the best-ever chocolate chip ice
cream.
Integration - Writing
Balloons are a most unusual flying machine.
As a class pretend that you are taking a trip
in a balloon. Write a tale of your trip.
How To Make A Hot Air Balloon
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Glue 4 tissue sheets together – 8 times
Fold all glued sheets lengthwise
Stack all sheets along fold
Top with pattern and clamp together
Cut all sheets along pattern edge
Glue, glue, glue
Top with tissue “lid”
Bottom it with straw circle