Motion Project (Reina, Jordan, and Sabrina)

Supplies:

• Cardboard
• String
• Balloons
• Helium
• Duct Tape

Objective: To build a house and lift it two meters using balloons filled with helium.

Where we got the idea: If you have seen the movie Up, well then that is where we got our idea.  If you haven't, well in the movie the most adorable elderly gentleman ties a ton of balloons to his house in order to take flight.  He lifts his house off the ground and simply flies away.  So we are making a small scale model of that, and trying to figure out how and why it works.
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Day 1: Today we focused on building our house.  We took some cardboard boxes and constructed what looks more like a barn than a house, but none the less it will serve our purpose.  Then we poked holes in the roof so we could tie string to the house.  We will then tie baloons filled with helium to these strings, and off our little barn/house should fly.  We then measured our house and weighed it.  This was the data we collected: 


House measurements: .4318 meters wide  .3556 meters high  .4826 meters deep
House Weight:  1 lb and 14.68 oz.


This is all we did today, due to our lack of balloons filled with helium, but we are one step closer to sending our house into orbit (or 2 meters into the air...same thing).


Day 1 Pictures: