Wild Blue YoNDER
Do you ever dream of flying -- making lazy circles in the sky like a seagull or a hawk? If you do, you're not alone. With this lesson students take the first steps in a truly fantastic journey. Hot air balloons send students soaring over landscapes, historyscapes, and imaginaryscapes all while discovering scientific principles through exploration. They learn what happened when a sheep, a duck and a rooster hopped into a balloon, discover the origins of some rather strange traditions, explore what makes something go up and what brings it back down, learn about the loudest sound ever heard on Earth, follow a Professor around the Globe, and much much more. Come on! Let’s discover what’s out there in the Wild Blue Yonder!
"You can never tell where the winds will blow you, what fantastic. good fortune they can lead you to. Long Live Balloons!" The adventure continues in Part 2 of Wild Blue Yonder! If we’re setting off like Professor Sherman, we’ll each need our own hot air balloons! Students prepare to take off by becoming apprentice basket weavers, sending potatoes aloft, learn what happens when real-world engineers are inspired by Pixar movies, and much much more as they discover just what it takes to Ride the Wind.
Preparation is a Breeze! Part 3
If we’re going to follow Professor Sherman around the globe, we have a lot to do to be ready! And when our preparation is finished it’s time build actual working hot air balloons & launch them Up, Up, and Away! Then we’ll measure how far they’ve gone, learn about real world Balloonatics, and figure out how to get our own balloons back safely so we can launch them all over again. It’s a very good time to be full of hot air!
Making our Great Escape! Part 4
This final chapter of our adventure is a treasure trove of fun as students get to sea and see stunning scenes, discover and create lost landscapes, find out that diamonds make a sure foundation, mine for treasures, find out what it’s like when it’s all in the family, create their own “diamonds” and watch them grow, get an taste for travel, take a delicious test, and much more. This is one escape they’ll want to write home about!
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