Air Fair
All ages
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January 30 - May 22, 2010
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You can’t see it. You can’t always feel it – but air is at work all around us. This exhibit is designed to encourage children and adults to interact and experiment with different objects and explore how they affect air. Children will investigate hands-on components to playfully discover the powers and properties of moving air!
Air Fair was produced by Austin Children's Museum. Presentation supported by the Temple-Inland Foundation and the Theodore P. Davis Charitable Trust. Media sponsorship provided by News 8 Austin and Time Warner Cable. This project was funded in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and National Endowment for the Arts.
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Air Fair Exhibit Components
Vortex – See a twister that’s tame enough to touch. Learn how air pressure and wind create tornados.
Bernoulli Blower – Discover how a stream of air can hold a ball in mid-air.
Wind Tube – Explore the effect moving air has on objects that you design to spin, fly or float.
Air Cannon – Discover the forces of air and how far it can travel. Get puffed with a blast of air!
Tube Tunes – Use air to make music on this large instrument made of PVC pipe.
Air Mail – Send and receive messages across the Museum using air, ping pong balls and a tube.
Wind Chamber – Step into the chamber, select a super hero cape, scarf, wings or streamers and see how wind creates forces that you can catch and feel.
Air Table – See how air can make things go! Experiment with the forces of air using pinwheels, flags and other items.
Sailboats – Off to the races! Try different sails to see which boat will go the farthest.
Kid-Powered Air – Pedal it, crank it. How many ways can you lift a ball in a stream of air?
Pneumatic Launcher – What happens when you drop a big red bowling ball, down a large tube compressing the air in a connected tube? Add a tennis ball shooting 30 feet towards a gong and you have a game that’s “full of air” and fun!
Which Way is Which? – Vibrating air makes sound that we hear. But what happens when you switch the direction you hear from? It’s a startling directional listening experience!
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Start Date: 1/30/2010 12:00:00 AM
End Date: 5/22/2010 12:00:00 AM