Resources

Supplies

• Digital Stopwatches, bicycle pump - sporting goods stores/Target/Kmart/Sam’s Club (mechanical stopwatches run about $50)
• Measuring tape - hardware/discount stores or http://www.medexamtools.com
• Balloons - Discount/warehouse club store

Books

• Balloon Science by Etta Kaner. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1989.
  Air, power, water, electricity and carbon dioxide experiments using balloons.
  
  
• Balloons; Building and Experimenting with Inflatable Toys by Bernie Zubrowski. NY: William Morrow, 1990.
  "Propulsion Models," "Measuring the Force of Air in a Balloon" and "The Force of Confined Air."
  
  
• Superloon's Amazing Balloon Book by John Javna. NY: Greenleaf, 1988.
  "Basic Balloon-ology," tricks, forms, toys, games, crafts, and air power experiments.
  
  
• Interactive Science: Air & Water by Susan Hermanson and Penelope L. Reidelberger.
  Topics: Air Activities, Balloon Activities, Bubble Activities, Flight Activities, Water Activities. ISBN 1-58108-036-0
  
  
• Rocket Science: 50 Flying, Floating, Flipping, Spinning Gadgets Kids Create Themselves by Jim Wiese. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1995. ISBN 0-471-11357-3

Web sites

• NASA Balloon Program
  http://www.wff.nasa.gov/~code820/
• Balloon Science
  http://www.ballooncollege.itgo.com/science.htm

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