• A way of teaching:

using literature or movies in

physics lessons

WHY THAT PROJECT?

Increasing the interest for scientist subjects

Jules Verne year

year of physics

First step: read the novel and make some researchs

About

• the author

• The forces applied to the balloon, his average speed

•The chemical proccess used in order to produce the hidrogene and the pile used in heating that hidrogene

•The history of aerostation and recent trips runned around the world.

Verification of the calculation about the capacity of the balloonaccording to

Second step:

• his volum

• the temperature of outside air and inside gas

•The mass of the envelop

Geometrical Details.—Calculation of the Capacity of the Balloon.-The Double Receptacle.—The Covenant.—The Car.—The Mysterious Apparatus.--The Provisions and Stores.—The Final Summing up.~~

Third step: visite of a balloon’s pilot:

Fourth step: Constructionof mini-balloonsby groups of 3 or 4

Présentationof those mini-balloons on the school’s open day

OTHER PROPOSITIONS