School has not started yet, but a wave of knowledge is flooding over school pupils this week.
Otago Museum Discovery World co-ordinator Amadeo Enriquez Ballestero is running a One Hour of Science programme at Moana Pool this week, at which school pupils will conduct science experiments involving water.
Each day would be different, he said.
Yesterday, the theme was geology, and throughout the rest of the week, experiments would be conducted at the pool in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics and astronomy.
As part of the geology Hour of Science yesterday, 25 participants lay on lilos and held hands to form ``a super continent, like Gondwana''.
When the pool staff turned on the bubbles in the diving pool and the children were told to let go of each other, they floated apart and discovered how the tectonic plates broke up and the different continents were formed.
``In a matter of moments, they saw what it took millions of years to do.''
Pupils also jumped off the diving boards at the pool to simulate a tsunami created by an asteroid hitting the ocean.
``The goal is to get kids in to science in an environment they naturally like to experiment in.''
Mr Enriquez Ballestero said the sessions were free and would be held each day from 5pm to 6pm.
