5 NASA Balloon Powered Car

Proposal

This session seeks for participants to investigate Newton’s third law of motion by providing a hands-on lesson for teacher involvement-NASA Balloon Powered Cars, in which teachers can implement into their curriculum and use with diverse gifted learners. The content in this session consists of teacher participation in hands-on activities, visual demonstrations, and power-point demonstrations. Handouts will include NASA Balloon-Car materials.

The primary learning outcomes include that (a) The learner will be able to increase their understanding of and comfort with the nature of science and the scientific process through the context of an interesting real-world scientific interactive hands-on lesson. (b) The learner will examine Newton's 2nd and 3rd Laws through the creation of NASA Balloon Powered Cars. (c) The learner will examine NASA teacher websites.

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