Balloon Rockets

For the past two weeks we have been completing our Air and Weather unit in Science. This was one of the activities we completed in the Science Lab, and it was super fun! The students have been learning that air can move things, and so our lovely AMSTI (Alabama Math, Science, and Technology Initiative) representative who has been helping us recently at DES set this experiment up for us. In case you can't see how this is set up, there are two chairs are placed away from each other, but have a piece of fishing wire strung up between them. SOMEHOW a straw (that has been strung through the fishing wire) is connected to the top of ziploc bag. The ziploc bag has been cut so that one side is completely open. We allowed each student to pump up an oblong balloon without tying a knot, stick half of it in the ziploc bag, and release the balloon to see how far it would travel! Since we had two classes in the lab at once, we had one student from each class race their balloon against each other. (Sorry if that made NO sense, so just watch the video and see what happens!)

By the way... it was about the cutest thing EVER when he said, "I made it!" :) These kids just make my day!