For Kids

DISCOVER OUR RADICAL UNIVERSE @the GDC

Visit us for some awesome science fun! The GDC has many cool hands-on science experiments and displays for you to get involved in. And if you are anything like us up here, then you will have lots of questions on how the universe works.

Why don’t we fall off the Earth (especially here in Australia) ?

What does gravity do and what’s a gravity wave all about?

When was our Universe born?

Who is this Einstein guy everyone talks about?

How old is our planet earth and will it last forever?

Are we really made out of Stardust?

What is a Zygomaturus Trilobus and is he still around today…    and what does Spaghettify mean??

We have all the answers to these questions and squillions more right here for you at the GDC. It’s cool to want to know stuff.

check out the NASA website for other space stuff!! http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/ligo/index.shtml

As a special treat we have the Leaning Tower of Gingin right here at the GDC. The Tower is a massive 45 meter tall steel structure, which is about the height of a 13 story building. For those of you who are not scared of heights, you can climb all 222 steps right to the very top. It gets a bit windy up there and sometimes it seems like the Tower is moving, but the feeling is just rad. Take some water filled balloons up with you and drop them through the chutes. Watch them fall and land with a big splat in the drop zone below. This experiment is the same one Galileo Galilei did some 440 years ago by dropping objects from the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy.  He wanted to prove that objects of different weights fall at the same speed. Do they? You tell us!

Sometimes Galileo drops in at the GDC to see how the experiments are going – you might just be lucky enough to meet him.

And remember the great school holiday program this summer!