{"id":3467,"date":"2015-07-10T17:14:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T14:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/?p=3134"},"modified":"2015-07-10T18:55:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T15:55:37","slug":"balloon-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/debate\/balloon-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"Balloon Debates!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You are in a hot air balloon that is losing height rapidly. It will soon crash into the side of a mountain because it is overweight. To prevent the certain death of everybody on board, only one person will be allowed to stay in the balloon!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Balloon debates are a great way of promoting research and presentational skills, and invariably make for a very lively lesson!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Downloads:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1_Balloon_Debate_Rules.doc\">Balloon Debate: Quickstart Guide for Teachers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-03-at-18.12.19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3143\" src=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-03-at-18.12.19-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-02-03 at 18.12.19\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2_Template.ppt\">Balloon Debate: Research Template<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3141\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3141\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-03-at-17.57.02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3141\" src=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-03-at-17.57.02-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Balloon Debate: Research Template\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Balloon Debate: Research Template<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You are in a hot air balloon that is losing height rapidly. It will soon crash into the side of a mountain because it is overweight. To prevent the certain death of everybody on board, only one person will be allowed to stay in the balloon!&#8221; Balloon debates are a great way of promoting research&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/debate\/balloon-debates\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[193,194,198,199,202,204,211],"tags":[221,245],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-TV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3533,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions\/3533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}