Willunga weather balloon takes inquiry sky high

Mariano Trevino

By Mariano Trevino
Community contribution / February 27, 2018

Year 8 students at Willunga High School are full of burning questions, but there’s one they may have finally found an answer to. What happens to a helium balloon when you let it go?

Students at Willunga High School had to contend with some tricky scientific problems to get their balloons up in the air.

The students have just launched their fourth weather balloon and tracked its path via live video feed almost 130 kilometres ...

This story appeared in the February 2018 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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