Science Alive! mobile exhibits are packaged in individual, colourful "plastic box" containers. These containers support each interactive at table top height for display and use. When inverted, the bins become the storage containers and table tops are the lids. The exhibits are highly portable and therefore suitable for outreach away from the main venue. The "plastic box" containers stack together taking up minimum space.
The interactives are all stand-alone self contained units and may be utilised as a complete exhibition or integrated into an existing exhibition or theme.
Themes include
Polyethylene durable construction bins
Bin tops
Accompanying graphics for all exhibits:
Powered exhibits require two single phase 220V
A maze with a twist. The aim is to get the ball into the centre. Tilting the board determines the direction the rolling ball travels.
Non-powered Interactive
Try to balance each ball on the ledge at each end of the container. This interactive uses inertia to compete the task.
Non-powered Interactive
Blowing between two vertical suspended tubes yields a result that may defy intuitive thinking. Just one example of Bernoulli's principle at work.
Non-powered Interactive
An old kitchen favourite - bottles with varying amounts of water give off different ringing notes when struck. The fuller the bottle, the deeper the note.
Non-powered Interactive
An inspired delve into the realm of topology. Two people are challenged to release themselves from linked handcuffs which have never actually been joined.
Non-powered Interactive
The pirates treasure is buried somewhere on an island. Find the islands centre of mass and you've found the treasure.
Non-powered Interactive
Two loops of steel are linked like a chain. Try to find a way of unlinking them without breaking the chain.
Non-powered Interactive
Can you transfer the rope from the blue frame to the red frame, then the yellow frame without untying the knot?
Non-powered Interactive
Fit all nine pieces together to make a complete dice.
Non-powered Interactive
A puzzle that could also be titled "the Vacationer's Dilemma". How do you pack these puzzling parcels so they fit perfectly into the box?
Non-powered Interactive
The principle of grip as friction exerted on a surface is given the hands-on treatment. Can you pick up the cones? Try the steepest first.
Non-powered Interactive
Try to build pens for the pigs by moving the pens only - four pens with one pig in each, then two pens for one pig and three pigs.
Non-powered Interactive
Create a tetrahedral pyramid with four pieces. It is not the simple proposition it appears.
Non-powered Interactive
Offset the squares on the checker board by moving the knob. Stand back - are the lines straight or is your brain being tricked?
Non-powered Interactive
How can you use the shapes to make a "T" or "Tree"?
Non-powered Interactive
Pipes of different lengths provide musical notes when struck with a thong. Play a favourite tune!
Non-powered Interactive
Try and place a wooden "thread" through the eye of a needle, with only one eye open. This can be quite a challenge, particularly if you don't move your head!
Non-powered Interactive
Use all seven soma cube pieces to make a three by three cube. There are 240 ways to do this
Non-powered Interactive
See how the cone moves uphill - but does it really?
Non-powered Interactive
By changing the flash speed of the LEDs, can you stop the flash flow exactly on the red arrow?
Powered Interactive.
Attempt to read the colours (not the words) aloud from the chart. It will be difficult as the brain is receiving conflicting messages.
Non-powered Interactive.
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