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This hot-air balloon activity, I started as a teacher at Bishop Mackenzie International School (BMIS) in the small but beautiful country of Malawi<\/a>, in Southern Africa. I was introduced to it by my good mate and colleague James. Turned out, some school resource supplier in the UK sold paper hot-air-balloon kits!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At BMIS,  every year, the whole of Form 3 (Grade 8 in the American system) assembled one balloon using a kit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in Baku, Azerbaijan, I modified the activity considerably, making it a lot more involved and challenging.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To begin with, I set out the task\/activity as a preparation for a hot air balloon competition (see instruction\/information sheet below).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Incidentally, the grading criteria which accompanies the sheet is a modified version of the IB Middle Years Program (MYP) science grading criteria from the academic year 2007-08.<\/p>\n\n\n\n