Hot Air Balloon Unit Study
Library List:
Balloons:
The First Two Hundred Years by Antonio Sotomayor
The Way Things Work: Ballooning DVD
Resources:
Nova Online - History
of Ballooning
EBalloon.org - Parts
of a Balloon
Activities:
History of Ballooning - Read about the history of ballooning online and in Balloons: The First Two Hundred Years. Write about the history on this History of Hot Air Ballooning Notebooking Page.
Parts of Balloon- Learn about the parts of a balloon. Label each and describe briefly on this Parts of a Hot Air Balloon Notebooking Page.
How Hot Air Balloons Work -
Watch: Nova's Virtual
Balloon Flight
How
Hot Air Balloons Work Video
The Way Things Work: Ballooning DVD
Use Hot Air Balloon Notebooking Page to describe how hot air ballons work.
Make a Hot Air Balloon
PBS Kids - Hot
Air Balloon
Read about Steve Fossett's hot air balloon flight around the world at Social Studies for Kids. Use Steve Fossett Notebooking Page to write about it.