Balancing Act August 19, 2011

Keeping your balance and losing your balance are a big part of growing up. Understanding how balance plays a role in science, engineering, cultural traditions, and art is fundamental to learning. The 'Balancing Act' exhibit weaves a tapestry of multicultural and science-based activities for children to experience different aspects of balance firsthand, including constructing a mobile from fanciful shapes, levers and counterweights; walking a tightrope; playing stacking games with featherweight blocks; operating a teeter-totter for plush toys; building a balance and motion machine of runways and ramps; and creating artwork based on ideas of harmony, scale and aesthetic balance.