“No Woman No Cry! No Woman No Cry!!”

No woman no cry/ No woman no cry...so starts the famous Bob Marley song. But what was it doing in my chemistry lessons?

No woman no cry/ No woman no cry...so starts the famous Bob Marley song. But what was it doing in my chemistry lessons?

A video of my MYP Year 4 students analyzing their fuels for their hot air balloons and making their hot air balloon out of tissue paper.

IB Diploma Chemistry introductory PowerPoint presentation I would have started off an academic year with...and it's all about love...for the love of the subject! :)

Detailed instructions on how to make a tissue-paper hot air balloon.

Deciding on the Ballooney Baku "race" to enter their tissue-paper hot air balloon in, identifying the kind of fuel necessary to win the race, and analyzing the fuels.

This is how a series of lessons, using tissue-paper hot-air balloons as a stimulus for a study of Fuels and Energy in MYP year four Science, began at The International School of Azerbaijan in Baku, Azerbaijan.