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Sputnik Lite Teaching Science With Balloons Nick Pugh [email protected]

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Sputnik Lite. Teaching Science With Balloons Nick Pugh [email protected]. Agenda. Scientific Investigation Data Collection Temperature Change with Altitude Graphing Wind Drift Radio Critical Thinking If Your Brave Public Relations While Having Fun. SOAP BOX. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Sputnik LiteTeaching Science

With Balloons

Nick [email protected]

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Agenda• Scientific Investigation• Data Collection• Temperature Change with Altitude• Graphing• Wind Drift• Radio• Critical Thinking• If Your Brave Public Relations

• While Having Fun

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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

ThenYou Need to Train Your

StudentsTo Invent Products

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Soap BoxAs Teachers You Have a Fantastic Vantage

Point To Spot the NextBill Gates (Microsoft)Coral Sagan (Astrometry)Madam Currie ( Discovered Radium)Jolson Bell (Discovered Pulsars)

Light Their FiresSend the to UL

We Will Finish the Job

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Project Called Cricket SatThe Guy Who Dreamed This UpProfessor Bob Twiggs of Stanford Google Cricket Sat You Will Get 100’s of HitsBob Presented a Webinar YesterdayNo Lesson Plans Yet ????Opportunity to Publish

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Release a Party BalloonMight Reach 30,000 FeetCarries a Radio TransmitterBeeps 37 times/10 sec at 30 deg CBeeps 10 times/10 sec at -7 deg C

Knowing Temperature Impute AltitudeJust Like Sputnik

Demonstration

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0 10 141 610 1218 2713 3353 4267 4877 5840 6573

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Temperature VS Altitude

TempretureFrequency

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Temperature = M*Frequency + B

meeters Feet tempreture Frequency0 0 25 34.410 32.8 18.2 29.3

141 462.48 22.8 32.7610 2000.8 20 30.71218 3995.04 15.7 27.52713 8898.64 10.6 23.73353 10997.84 5.9 20.34267 13995.76 -0.3 15.74877 15996.56 -4.4 12.75840 19155.2 -10.7 8.06573 21559.44 -15.7 4.37010 22992.8 -19.9 1.2

Feet to Metters M B3.28 1.355 -21.556

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SoExpose Them to Fun ProjectsTeach Science With Wands OnBalloons are Cool to Kids

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Sputnik LiteReferences

WWW.ULcape.orghttp://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.htmlhttp://audacity.sourceforge.net/[email protected]@Stanford.Edu