Science Alive

In Christchurch we went to the Science Alive museum. First Damon, Elena and I went on a gyroscope where you sit in a seat and someone spins a wheel and you go upside down and around. They use this to train astronauts because it makes you feel like you are in space where you can't feel gravity. There was also a slide that went straight down then curved. It was scary when you first dropped straight down, but it was fun! There were also these chairs with a rope in front of them. You had to sit in the chair and pull yourself up with the rope. There were three chairs and one had one pulley, another had two pulleys, and the last had three. The one with 3 pulleys was easiest to pull myself up because the pulleys were doing much of the work. There was a beehive where you could see the bees going up a tube to get outside. There were lots of games to play like rolling a ball on a board around the pegs to get to the end or trying to balance on a board for as long as you could. We also did a climbing wall. It was a lot of fun!

-Maddie