Water Works

Learning Goals

• Ball Launch - This component begins the main watercourse. Here, children drop balls into a series of clear plastic tubes. By turning valves to increase or decrease pressure inside the tubes, they can send their ball all the way up the trackway that runs above the pipe play area.
• Pipe Play - Children can build free-form water sculptures with a series of connecting pipes that spray water out the top. They can also connect the pipes to nozzles that take aim at playful chimes and other contraptions.
• Falling Water - As balls feed out of the overhead trackway above the pipe play area, they travel down a maze of troughs that direct them into the water table below.
• Archimedes Screw - As balls feed down the watercourse trackway, children turn a hand crank that moves the water and balls up an Archimedes screw and down into another water table.
• Buckets & Conveyers - Children turn a large crank to start a series of buckets that scoop water and balls along a vertical conveyer, carrying them upwards to a trough which spills them down into a swirling vortex.
• Toddler Table - This stand-alone table for toddlers features a playful water flute that shoots water from its center, floatable boats, and other water toys.