3… 2.. 1… Blast off! Tamariki learn all about the forces of flight at Space Place’s 4-hour school holiday workshop featuring rocket experiments, vortex cannons and beyond.
From making everyday objects fly with a leaf-blower, to observing what happens when you put a marshtronaut (marshmallow-astronaut) into a vacuum chamber, tamariki will come home brimming with new knowledge about how gravity, lift, resistance and thrust can be used to make cool things happen!
Suitable for ages 8– 2, the workshop rounds off with a screening of CAPCOM Go! – a planetarium show about the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon.
Workshop options:
- Tuesday 16 April, 9am–1pm
- Wednesday 17 April, 9am–1pm
- Tuesday 23 April, 9am–1pm
- Wednesday 24 April, 9am–1pm
Tamariki can be dropped-off in the morning and picked-up afterwards; caregivers are not required to stay for the duration of the workshop. Tamariki should bring a packed lunch.
For more information and to buy tickets: www.museumswellington.org.nz/flight-club
Location: Space Place, 40 Salamanca Road, Kelburn, Wellington
Related content
Use this article to explore the huge range of Science Learning Hub resources related to forces and movement in the Physical World strand of the New Zealand Curriculum. We have resources for early years and the middle years and up and all split into handy topics, such as flight and rockets.
We also have a range of recorded webinars to support you with your physics teaching. Have a look at our Physics made simple series: force and motion, gravity, waves and Exploring magnetism.
