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Activity 2. Balloon Popping!

Name : Aleeza Asif Roll no : 261944488

Part 1.
A. Please prepare these items before starting the activity

⚫ Normal Size Rubber Balloon (the same color is recommended), Quantity: number of
participants (or family member who can do this activity together) x 2.
It is recommended to do this activity with more than 4~5 people
⚫ Small size memo paper, any size (3~5cm x 5~10cm) fittable for writing the name of
participants, Quantity: number of participants x 2

⚫ Stopwatch. Use stopwatch app in mobile phone.

B. Write a name of participants on the memo paper. One name per one paper. (A half of

papers are consumed now)

C. Roll the paper and put one paper into a balloon. Do the same for all the papers that

have a name on them.

D. Blow up the balloons that have a paper in it to be similar size.

E. Start stopwatch, all participants begin finding the balloon with his/her name.
F. When all participants finish finding the correct balloon of their choice (no matter the

balloon that a participant picked up is really his/hers or not), check if the name in the
balloon is his/hers by popping the balloon.

G. When everyone finishes checking the names of the paper, stop the stopwatch.
H. Record the number of persons who found the correct balloon and the total time taken
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⚫ Total number of participants in the activity 4
⚫ Number of participants who found their names 2

⚫ Time taken 2 minutes 3 seconds min

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Part 2.
A. Repeat the steps B~D of Part I.

B. Start stopwatch, all participants begin picking up any one balloon each.
C. Pop the balloon and check the name on the paper and give the paper to right person

⚫ If you don’t know who is the person of the name that you have, call the name.
When the person come to you, give the name paper to the right person.

D. Stop the stopwatch when everyone takes their own name paper.
E. Record the number of persons who found the correct balloon and the total time taken

to finish this activity. /2

⚫ Total number of participants in the activity 4

⚫ Number of participants who found their names 1

⚫ Time taken 1 minute 36 seconds min

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Part 3.
⚫ Explain your observation about most important things (at least two) by comparing

the result of Part 1 and Part 2 activities. [1.5+1.5]

1) The first thing I noticed was the time difference and the fact that it took me and the
participants longer to find our own names whereas in the second part, it took less time
since we just had to pop the balloons and hand them to the respective participant.
2) In the first part of the experiment, my intuition wasn’t strong enough to have picked
up my own balloon but in the second part, I picked the right balloon.

⚫ Try to find out lessons that we can learn from this activity as a student who study
Environmental Sciences. Relate this activity to Environmental Issue. [ /2]

What I learned from this experiment was that rather than throwing someone else’s
balloon back on the floor, I helped the participant by handing it to them. How I relate
this activity to environmental issues is that by providing a helping hand to others,
problem solving can be easier and more efficient.

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Students who do this activity at home, please take photos while you do and add
two of them here as an evidence. (For example, one of showing the balloons,

papers before activity and one with your family member holding popped balloons
and name papers etc.). Students who attend class physically do not need to add

photos here.