Air Playground
Air is a fluid
- What
- Self-directed
- When
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Terms 1 to 3, Monday to Friday
Until Friday 20 September 2024 - Duration
- 1 hour
- Year level
- Years K to 6
- Minmum student numbers
- Minimum 15 students
- Maximum student numbers
- Maximum 60 students
- Cost
- $9 per student + education service fee
- Booking information
- Bookings 13 11 02
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.
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.
Victorian 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)
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