Hot Air Balloon Learning Standards
Hot Air Balloon Learning Standards
Students develop the abilities to do scientific inquiry.
• Students identify questions and concepts that guide scientificinvestigations.
• Students design and conduct scientific investigations.
• Students use technology and mathematics to improve investigations and communications.
• Students formulate and revise scientific explanations and models using logic and evidence.
• Students communicate and defend a scientific argument.
NCTM 9-12
Students compute fluently and make reasonable estimates.
• Students judge the reasonableness of numerical computations and their results.
• Students draw reasonable conclusions about a situation being modeled.
• Students understand measurement attributes of objects and the units, systems, and processes of measurement.
• Students make decisions about units and scales that are appropriate for problem situations involving measurement.
• Students formulate questions that can be addressed with data collect, organize, and display relevant data.
• Students recognize and use connections
among mathematical ideas.
• Students recognize and apply mathematics in contexts outside of mathematics.
• Students understand and use ratios and proportions to represent quantitative relationships.
• Students understand patterns, relations, and functions.
• Students represent, analyze, and generalize a variety of patterns with tables, graph, words,
and, when possible, symbolic rules.
ITEA 9-12
• Students develop an understanding of the attributes of design.
• Students learn design problems are rarely presented in a clearly defined form.
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Students learn that design needs to be continually checked and
critiquedand the ideas of the design must be redefined and improved.