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Grade 6 Science - Ballooning

Grade 6 students. View the following video on the history of ballooning and comment on some of the dangers the inventors and first balloonists faced.



Due: Wednesday, November 2

11 comments:

  1. Inventors and the first balloonists faced many different dangers. For starters they were working with different types of chemicals and acids which if inhaled could be dangerous. They were also working with fire (which they still do today) which also could be hard to handle and they would have to be very cautious. The balloons would either be filed with hot air or hydrogen. If you were to use hot air you would always have to be cautious because if cool air starts filling up in the balloon you could easily fall to the ground. You could also use hydrogen which was a powerful gas that could easily flame. This acid was sometimes hard to handle. In the late 1700's a man inflated the balloon with too much acid and the balloon exploded. Both of these techniques worked because both were lighter than air and that's why they were able to float but...you had to be careful when dealing with both of these acids. Another thing that you had to be careful of with the balloon was keeping it under control. Even some of the greatest balloonists in that time would go out of control trying to fly the balloon. In that time a man a man had gone out of control and ended up flying into a number of rooftops! They went through so many dangers that people are still going through today and hopefully one day flying a balloon will be totally safe.

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  2. The Inventor of the hotair balloon used acid for the balloon witch was dangerous.

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  3. The inventores for ballooning were Etienne Montgolfier Joseph montgolfier also none as the Montgolfier brothers and there compotision was Jacques Alexander Chareles. the dangers of ballooning are having acid for the balloon which was also very dangerouse and chemicals aspecially if breathed in. The common balloon would be filled with hydrogen or hot air. But you have to becareful because it can catch on fire.But the inventors can even get hurt by flying the balloon because they can go out of control.

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  4. The first pioneers of balloning were the Montgolfier brothers and for me appeared to have the most elaborate ballons of them all. Ballooning probably had many dangers such as dangerous weather,the hydrogen which is extremely flammable,dangerous gasses,miscontrol and miscalculation so overall it was a very very dangerous buisness.

    Henry gr.6

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  5. some common dangers are

    *bad weather
    *bad gases
    *not enought control
    *bad cemicals
    *they used acid witch is dangurous
    *fire it could cetch on fire

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  6. If they go in to the sky there could be bad weather like rain wind and lightning plus the chemicals can blow up and kill a bunch of people!

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  7. Early balloonists must have been very courageus to face all the dangers they have been through. The risks of getting hurt in an air balloon when they were first making them was huge. One big danger is the use of hydrogen. In those days that's what they used for hot air in the balloon. Hydrogen is extremely flamable and if you were landing and crashed your balloon it would burst up in flames. Another danger is crashing. When the early balloonists had not yet discovered how to navigate the balloon it could easily crash into a tower or a building and plummet right to the ground! One last danger that the inventors of hot-air balloons would have had is the ability to control the balloon. They might not yet have figured out just the right way to control the flame and if they didn't know how, that could end tragically with the balloon crashed. in the end, early balloonists risked a lot, getting hurt or even killed but at the end they came up with an extraordinary creation.

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  8. The inventers and balloners had alot of danger that took place some of these's situiations were useing flamable gas's,acid,and farist metel to make a ballon fly witch is dangerous. John Wise also lost control of his ballown causeing him to bump into chimneys and houses his ground lifter also set on fire the hydrogen gas causeing him to make a big explosion.

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  9. It was very smart to think of doing such a dangerous thing there are many dangers like
    -bad steering
    -bad weather
    -bad glass
    -acid
    -the metal in a baloon is very dangerous
    -the whole air baloon could of cout on fire because of th fire used
    natalie

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  10. Ballooning was something that was quite dangerous but at the same time quite smart compared to flying in a blip where things could explode if someone just dropped a ciggerate here are a few things that were bad about the air balloon there was barely any steering the only way was to go up and go down here are some good things about the air balloon it was quite easy to travel with it would not cost so much to buy or rent one so you could get to your destination so the air balloon was a real change in the way people got transported and this changed history

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  11. Air balloons are dangerous because they might get the balloon to pop because there is going to be really heavy hail and big storms too

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