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Air Playground – For schools
Get pumped for a fun-filled exploration of our most precious resource—air.
Child playing in the air playground exhibition with ping pong balls / Source: Museums Victoria / Photo: Wilk
Play with air, the amazing invisible elemental force, and experience hands-on the science of aerodynamics.
Whoosh, swirl, gust, squish, flow, float and more at Air Playground!
Float objects in mid-air, place material in fast moving air-jets, squish a giant inflatable tentacled sculpture with your body, launch balls sky-high with compressed air and craft paper planes to soar and more.
- Air Playground Teacher Guide| 3.27 MB .pdf file
Through open ended tinkering and collaborative play, students develop key STEM skills and dispositions – test, try, fail, iterate. It’s a constant experimental process, allowing students to construct their own knowledge of how a gas behaves and how objects move through gases.
Curriculum Links
Science
- The way objects move depends on a variety of factors including their size and shape: a push or a pull affects how an object moves or changes shape (VCSSU048)
- Compare results with predictions, suggesting possible reasons for findings (VCSIS070)
- Solids, liquids and gases behave in different ways and have observable properties that help to classify them (VCSSU076)
- Communicate ideas and processes using evidence to develop explanations of events and phenomena and to identify simple cause-and-effect relationships (VCSIS088)
