The fifth grade teachers were excited to discover a deflated weather balloon snagged on the side of our building this morning when we arrived!
After we tugged it loose from the gutter, we hauled it inside to explore. I will post additional images when I have more time next week.
Our plan is to send the box back to the NOAA with a letter inside that asks a few questions about the balloon and the data that it was recording. We hope that they have time to respond!
One student was so curious about the deflated balloon this afternoon that he checked out a book from our school library to learn more.
He discovered that weather balloons can travel up to twenty miles above the surface of our planet, which means that we touched an object that went higher than some airplanes!
What a thrill!
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