Parents and children of all ages and abilities can steer, yank and crank, use their own weight, reflexes and imagination to explore how things work. The outdoor playground exhibits focus on principles of the physical and the mechanized world. Participants introduce energy at one end of this suspended structure by turning a disk. By supplying enough energy to move the first ball, the wave is carried rhythmically along the length of the structure and then returns. This exhibit illustrates energy propagated in a wave.
Visitors can see how their actions can affect things at a distance.
Visitors of all ages can race down two adjacent slides, one straight and one curved, which travel the same vertical distance. A timer on the exhibit displays the result. A visitor stands on a rotating disc and holds a handle in the center. By leaning in, the visitor spins faster, by leaning out, the visitor spins slower. This oversized wooden seesaw allows two or 20 people to participate.