Objectives:
- Design a mini-poster about a milestone in ballooning history
- Teach the class about your milestone.
- Create a "ballooning history" digital timeline by combining milestones from all students.
- Read the following NOVA site to get an overview of ballooning history.
1. From the following list, choose your top three research topics. Check with the project director to finalize your assignment.
- Ancient Chinese Balloons
- Ancient Peru Theory
- Montgolfier's First Public Experiment
- Montgolfier's Second Public Experiment
- 1783--First Animal Flight
- 1783--First Manned Flight
- 1783--First Untethered Flight
- 1785--First Across English Channel
- 1793--First North American Flight
- 1932--First Flight to Stratosphere
- 1935--Altitude Record
- 1960--Altitude Record and Parachute Jump
- 1961--Altitude Record
- 1978--First Atlantic Crossing
- 1981--First Pacific Crossing
- 1984--First Solo Transatlantic Flight
- 1987--First Transatlantic Flight by Hot Air Balloon
- 1988--Hot Air Altitude Record
- 1991--First Transpacific Flight by Hot Air Balloon
- 1992--Duration Record Set
- 1995--First Solo Transpacific Flight
- 1999--First Around the World Flight
- 2002--First Solo Around the World Flight
- 2005--World Hot Air Altitude Record Broken
- 2012--Altitude Record and Parachute Jump
- 2014--Altitude Record and Parachute Jump
2. Read about your topic using the links above or one or more of the following sites:
- *Eballoon.org: The History of Hot Air Ballooning
- About.com: History of Balloons and Airships
- Wonderful Balloon Ascents - French Accounts of Early Ballooning
- *The History of Air Balloons - San Diego Balloons.Com
3. Download and complete the Ballooning History Noteform to record and organize the most important information (5-Ws) about your topic.
3. Get your notes approved by the project director before beginning your mini-poster.
4. Follow the Mini-Poster Guidelines to design your poster in a Pages document.
5. Email your Pages document to one of the directors and await edits.
6. Print and present your final mini-poster.
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