Materials List:
Balloons
For pre-activity boat-building assessment activity, each student needs:
- 5 index cards
- 2 ft masking tape
- 5 Popsicle sticks
- 100 g of weight, for testing
- bucket or sink of water
Each group needs:
- thin nylon cord, 100 ft
- spring scale
- computers with PowerPoint and video editing capability
- Balloons Worksheet, one per student
- Balloon Budget Worksheet, one per group
To share with the entire class:
- flip video camera, such as: https://www.amazon.com/Flip-UltraHD-Video-Camera-Generation/dp/B0040702HA
- painter's plastic
- 2 hairdryers
- (optional, to replace hairdryers above) Indoor Balloon Tester: https://www.pitsco.com/products/indoor-balloon-tester?srsltid=AfmBOooyYl9lNMhADk8_xDI302QTkpedl51dkZUul4ASMhjPF2MFvGMb
- tissue paper
- trash bags
- 17-inch balloons
- 5-10 large helium balloons (purchased on test day or 1 day prior)
- thick string (twine)
- thin string (thread)
- bamboo skewers
- cardboard
- wire
- styrofoam
- fabric (1m x 1m)
- computer with internet access, and projector, to show short video documentary
- printer, for printing out images from camera video footage
