The Mini Page — 2007 Activities
UP, UP AND AWAY!
Issue 30
July 21-27
This week's standards:
- Students understand science and technology.
- Students understand the abilities of technological design.
Activities:
1. Use magic markers to decorate a balloon to look like a hot air balloon.
Write a story about you and your friends having an adventure in a hot air balloon.
Tape your balloon to your story. Share your story with your friends.
2. Pretend you can take three people with you on a hot air balloon ride.
What three comic strip characters would you take with you? Why?
3. Use newspaper ads to find pictures of foods you could take with you on a balloon ride. Draw a picture of a picnic basket on a piece of paper. Paste your foods in the basket.
4. Why is it important to learn about these school subjects if you want to be a hot air
balloonist: (a) physics, (b) math, (c) meteorology, and (d) geography?
5. Pretend you have a hot air balloon business. Describe five different jobs you could do for people using your hot air balloon. Design a newspaper ad telling about your business.
Standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
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