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media type="custom" key="5013051"Hey, this is Annalise, and you are going to learn a lot about me and other educational information. First you are going to learn about me;like how I love basketball and painting watercolors. I am also very active in a few other sports. Aside from basketball, I would be running, or reading. I have a brother and sister both younger than me, and a mom and dad. My birthday is in January, so it is coming up.I wish everyone who reads this a Happy Holiday and joyful new year. Now you now a little about me. [|google.com]

HOW STUFF WORKS: HOT AIR BALLOONS As you may know, a hot air balloon uses fire to make it move and surprisingly, it is not that easy. The reason for the fire is that hot air rises in cooler air. Also my science teacher taught me that hot air is less dense, or heavier than cooler so, that is another reason you don't see a person pulling a rope and seeing icicles fly up into the balloon.

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Hot air balloons run on propane to keep the burners warm, and to keep the balloon afloat in the air. How does the flames not burn the whole balloon? Well, when you pull the rope, the propane is quickly moving through hoses to heat a coil. The coil is just the tubing in a shape of a coil. so the propane goes to the burners heating the metal. Now the metal is hot and so is the liquid inside of it. This is the most amazing part; the propane changes from a liquid to a gas right inside the tube! This flame is like a fuel for the balloon. What happens when you keep pulling the rope? The balloon just keeps rising, but only up to a certain altitude. You know the basket on a hot air balloon? Right, it is where you stand; it is that wicker material. The reason they make itm like this is because it is strong, flexible and can stand the wind. Now, how do you fly this thing again? Well it takes so practice, but almost anyone can do it.It has controls, and there are different levers you use to make the balloon go higher and lower. when you pull these controls you can make one, make it heat up and go higher or two open the parachute valve to make it go lower.
 * This is a balloon, and as you can see the burners are on.**

Also if you want to land the balloon you need to open the parachute valve. When the balloonist pulls on a cord it opens a little door at the top of the balloon, making so air escape and making the hot air balloon sink in the sky. Okay, so you can go up and down but what about any other way? Well, when you go higher there are different layers of the atmosphere, which we live in the troposphere.Now the troposphere has weather, which brings us to....... wind! Just like the ocean it has ocean currents, the wind has currents too. it will take you left and right or no where if there isn't any wind.

So that is how a hot air balloon works!!!



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BOOK REVIEW:A MANGO SHAPED SPACE by: Wendy Mass This book was very different from any other books I read, it also taught me something new. Mia is just an average girl,well to everyone else. Inside of her she sees colors. Like when a door slams,"bam!" brown spirals circle around her face. It makes her world a little more colorful than anyone else's. she also has a cat named Mango, he means the world to Mia. The way she found him was at her grandpa's funeral. He was near the grave and was a cute little kitten in the cold. He instantly remained her of him.

One night she tells her parents about her colors which makes them really worried. So she goes to see her family doctor and he doesn't know what to do. So they go see a special doctor that has been trained to talk about this kind of stuff. so what happens? Does Mia have a disease? Does anyone else have it? YOU CAN SEE WHAT HAPPENS Caution- some silliness, romance and bravery is involved. Fun facts: ~mia named her cat mango because of the colors she sees him in. ~Mia tries some crazy things to see brighter colors. ~ Mia has an older sister and younger brother. thanks for reading this book review.it is recommended to teen girls. May be available at a local library.

ONE SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CURRENT EVENT: Math,Science study gets high profile boost

NO Aurthur Named. Found on [] Summary- Hey all you Sparta Middle school students, you know how sometime this year, you will be able to go to S.T.E.M? Well guess who started it. Yeah, President Obama. He thought it was important for kids to learn about science and math. So now all over the country any school can teach S.T.E.M. So maybe ask a friend out of town and see if they have it. If you haven't been to S.T.E.M yet it is so cool. You learn about Science, Technology, Enginering,and Math. (trust me not a lot of math is involved.) So there are a few sponcerers to thank. So when you think about school, think of the lots of adults who care about what you are learning. I think it is a good start to a better society. Thank you everyone for helping!
 * Michelle Obama [[image:elmo.jpg width="129" height="92"]]
 * Sally Ride, first American woman in space
 * Big Bird, Elmo and everyone on Sesame Street
 * Bill Gates and his wife

// UNSOLVED MYSTERY: The Titanic //

Everyone knows about the titanic, but not everyone knows the story of it. In 1898 the author Morgan Robertson wrote a book about a boat called the titan. She meant for it to be fictional. Well, as we know in 1912 a boat in real life, the Titanic sunk. It was very strange because the author almost told the future. It was a very sad time, and no one now can even find the Titanic. Over 2,000 people died because there wasn't enough life boats. Another reason why it was so spine-chilling was because it happened the same time, same place same problem in the story and the Titanic. It was just so scary. No one really knows why this novel creepy simillar.

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Wild Weather Event: Hurricane Katrina

This is one of the storms that everyone has remembered... as one of the top 5 most devistating storms. On August 23 2005, Katrina started up over the Bahamas as a catagory 1. Not too big right? It was only little damage, a few floods, but it wasn't the end. The second landfall was on the 29th in Louisiana as a catagory 3. Only a cat. 3 not so bad, wrong! it caused terrible destruction particularly in New Orleans. It flooded very badly and it lasted for weeks. About 1836 people were killed and 705 not found. And the cost to fix it, 81.2 billion, and if this happened today, 90.9 billion dollars. After this many people were blamed for not providing accurate signas and enough time to escape from the tragic storm. It was sad for the people who knew the storm was coming but wasn't able to escape because of the amount of money they had. Four years after this, some citizens still lived in mobil homes. []