Earth Balloon Takes Over Gym
2/12/2009 9:57 AMEarth Adventure travels to schools across the country providing
interactive science and geography-based programs. Their program features the Earth Balloon®, a 20' diameter
model of the earth. The Earth Balloon is an inflatable earth made from
high resolution satellite images with true to life colors. Students entered the Earth Balloon to learn about our planet. They learned about landforms,bodies of water, ecosystems, and so on.
Points of Interest
Students enter the Earth
Balloon through the International Date Line. They sit on Antarctica inside the globe. Students see the earth in its
entirety inside the globe. The Earth Balloon is
constructed from 24 panels, one for every time zone, or every hour of the
day. The Earth Balloon's scale is
1" on the Earth Balloon is equal to 30 miles on the earth. Set up and take down takes
less than 10 minutes.
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