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Breaking Barriers: Solving Linear Equations©

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Description

In this hands-on activity, students make and launch a Balloon X-1 aircraft. They collect a variety of data, including the angle of the launch path and the time and distance the aircraft travels. The data sets are used to calculate the average speed of the balloon. The average speeds are then graphed and students look for patterns that could be used to make predictions about the speed of their aircraft over a greater distance.

Instructional Objectives

Students will:

understand the design process.
collect and record a variety of data.
make a model and design improvements based on data collected.
calculate speed using time and distance measurements.
identify linear relationships.

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