Transcript Teaching Science With Balloons Nick Pugh [email protected] • • • • • • • • Scientific Investigation Data Collection Temperature Change with Altitude Graphing Wind Drift Radio Critical Thinking If Your Brave Public Relations • While Having Fun.

Teaching Science
With Balloons
Nick Pugh
[email protected]
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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
Then
You Need to Train Your
Students
To Invent Products
As Teachers You Have a Fantastic Vantage Point
To Spot the Next
Bill Gates (Microsoft)
Coral Sagan (Astrometry)
Madam Currie ( Discovered Radium)
Jolson Bell (Discovered Pulsars)
Light Their Fires
Send the to UL
We Will Finish the Job
Project Called Cricket Sat
 The Guy Who Dreamed This Up
 Professor Bob Twiggs of Stanford
 Google Cricket Sat You Will Get 100’s of Hits
 Bob Presented a Webinar Yesterday
 No Lesson Plans Yet ????
 Opportunity to Publish
Demonstration
Temperature VS Altitude
30
40.0
25
35.0
Tempreture
20
Frequency
30.0
15
25.0
5
20.0
0
0
10
141
610
1218
2713
3353
4267
4877
5840
6573
15.0
-5
-10
10.0
-15
5.0
-20
-25
0.0
Feet
Frequency
Tempreture deg C
10
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
So
 Expose Them to Fun Projects
 Teach Science With Wands On
 Balloons are Cool to Kids
References
WWW.ULcape.org
http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
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