teaching science with balloons nick pugh [email protected]
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Agenda• Scientific Investigation• Data Collection• Temperature Change with Altitude• Graphing• Wind Drift• Radio• Critical Thinking• If Your Brave Public Relations
• While Having Fun
SOAP BOX* Taiwan Produces More Engineers Than the US* If Your Children are to Have Jobs in the US* If You Want to Collect Your Social Security
ThenYou Need to Train Your
StudentsTo Invent Products
Soap BoxAs Teachers You Have a Fantastic Vantage
Point To Spot the NextBill Gates (Microsoft)Coral Sagan (Astrometry)Madam Currie ( Discovered Radium)Jolson Bell (Discovered Pulsars)
Light Their FiresSend the to UL
We Will Finish the Job
Project Called Cricket SatThe Guy Who Dreamed This UpProfessor Bob Twiggs of Stanford Google Cricket Sat You Will Get 100’s of HitsBob Presented a Webinar YesterdayNo Lesson Plans Yet ????Opportunity to Publish
Release a Party BalloonMight Reach 30,000 FeetCarries a Radio TransmitterBeeps 37 times/10 sec at 30 deg CBeeps 10 times/10 sec at -7 deg C
Knowing Temperature Impute AltitudeJust Like Sputnik
Demonstration
0 10 141 610 1218 2713 3353 4267 4877 5840 6573
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Temperature VS Altitude
Tempreture
Frequency
Feet
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ency
Temperature = M*Frequency + B
meeters Feet tempreture Frequency
0 0 25 34.4
10 32.8 18.2 29.3
141 462.48 22.8 32.7
610 2000.8 20 30.7
1218 3995.04 15.7 27.5
2713 8898.64 10.6 23.7
3353 10997.84 5.9 20.3
4267 13995.76 -0.3 15.7
4877 15996.56 -4.4 12.7
5840 19155.2 -10.7 8.0
6573 21559.44 -15.7 4.3
7010 22992.8 -19.9 1.2
Feet to Metters M B
3.28 1.355 -21.556
SoExpose Them to Fun ProjectsTeach Science With Wands OnBalloons are Cool to Kids
Sputnik LiteReferences
WWW.ULcape.orghttp://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.htmlhttp://audacity.sourceforge.net/[email protected]@Stanford.Edu