Learning from wind and air. Belgium Challenges and Box.

We received the Belgium challenges and box! So excited. For everyone at school. 

The challenge is to explore from a balloon rocket. Meanwhile, we are learning about wind by providing children with different materials.  Children are concerned that the wind moves the clouds in the sky. It can move sailboats on the water. Together with children, we are thinking of different ways they can make the air move and create a breeze (blowing, waving the hands, using a fan, etc.).  We asked if they know of any tools or machines that move air (hair dryers, fans, etc.).

We started to find out that air is invisible but we can breathe it and also play with it, as you can see in this video.

Inspired by the artist Daniel Wurztle best known for his kinetic sculptures and installations using air and lightweight materials that fly we had the chance to watch how different materials danced in the air. Propelled into motion by just an air pump we could see something that is invisible, the aerodynamic properties of these materials, and the underlying order within these inherently chaotic airflow systems are revealed in a way that can be continuously observed.