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Students will begin the hot air balloon project by researching how Google uses hot air balloons to provide Internet services to regions around the world through Project Loon. Then students will use the Engineering Design Process to design and engineer their own hot air balloons using large tissue paper. The scissors and posterboard are supplementary supplies for constructing the balloons. This STEM activity is rich in physics topics appropriate for 8th graders, such as density, states of matter, particle motion, energy transformations, buoyancy, heat transfer (convection), and fluid displacement. This project is challenging on many levels. Students are required to exhibit teamwork, shared decision-making, critical thinking, and ultimately, ownership and responsibility. True to the nature of STEM, this activity requires flexible thinking, creativity, and innovative approaches for creating prototypes to test, redesign, and retest. Students will gather data, analyze it, look for patterns and then apply the findings to improve upon prototype design. This project will also lay the foundation for a later project on rocketry. My students are eager to meet the challenge with this hot air balloon project.

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Students will begin the hot air balloon project by researching how Google uses hot air balloons to provide Internet services to regions around the world through Project Loon. Then students will use the Engineering Design Process to design and engineer their own hot air balloons using large tissue paper. The scissors and posterboard are supplementary supplies for constructing the balloons. This STEM activity is rich in physics topics appropriate for 8th graders, such as density, states of matter, particle motion, energy transformations, buoyancy, heat transfer (convection), and fluid displacement. This project is challenging on many levels. Students are required to exhibit teamwork, shared decision-making, critical thinking, and ultimately, ownership and responsibility. True to the nature of STEM, this activity requires flexible thinking, creativity, and innovative approaches for creating prototypes to test, redesign, and retest. Students will gather data, analyze it, look for patterns and then apply the findings to improve upon prototype design. This project will also lay the foundation for a later project on rocketry. My students are eager to meet the challenge with this hot air balloon project.

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