Air Playground
31 October 2025 - 19 April 2026
Region(s): Waikato
Type(s): exhibitions, experiences
At Air Playground, curious kids and families have fun with air - an invisible elemental force.
Explore the science of aerodynamics through experimental play: float objects in mid-air, release material in a fast-flowing airstream and launch your own paper plane design.
Learn about the complex physics of air by challenging your friends to an ‘aircade’ game, tinkering with the speed and direction of airflow or collaborating to create a spinning, flapping air show!
Developed by a team of Scienceworks experts from Museums Victoria, this exhibition is jam-packed with hands-on interactive experiences.
For more information and to book tickets: https://tewharetaonga.nz/whats-on/exhibitions/air-playground.
Location: Te Whare Taonga o Waikato Museum & Gallery, 1 Grantham Street, Kirikiriroa Hamilton
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Building Science Concepts: The air around us provides background information pertinent to this set of activities. The article contains the interactive The air around us, which shows the likely progression of students’ conceptual thinking.
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Download the PDF Kupu Māori mō te hau takiwā – a glossary of kupu Māori that supports learning about air.
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The activity Balloons and air density explores how the same amount of air can take up different amounts of space depending on the temperature of the air molecules.
Investigating the push of air is a set of five simple activities that provide opportunities to observe the push of air and effects of air pressure.
Use the Aerofoils and paper planes activity to learn how to make an aerofoil and to make and fly paper planes.
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