20 September! Our special, spectacular Sky Tower visit. Our scrutinizing faces were locked on to the tall pine tree- looking building.
We learnt some fantastic, fun-filled, fascinating facts about the tallest tower in the southern hemisphere.
*DID YOU KNOW THAT THE SKY TOWER IS THE TALLEST TOWER IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE?
*DID YOU KNOW THAT WHEN LOOKING OUT FROM THE MAIN OBSERVaTORY YOU CAN SEE APPROXIMATELY 82 KILOMETERS AWAY?
*DID YOU KNOW THAT THE SKY TOWER WEIGHS THE SAME WEIGHT AS 6000 ELEPHANTS?
*DID YOU KNOW THAT THE SKY TOWER IS MADE OF 3 MAIN MATERIALS; GLASS, METAL AND CONCRETE?
*DID YOU KNOW THAT IT TOOK 33 MOUNTHS TO BUILD THE SKY TOWER?
*DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE 51 LEVELS TO THE MAIN OBSERVATION DECK?
*DID YOU KNOW THEY USE SOMETHING CALLED A DYNO SPHERE TO RELEASE THE LIGHTNING UNDERGROUND SO NOBODY GETS HURT?
*DID YOU KNOW THAT THE LIFTS IN THE SKY TOWER TRAVEL AT 18 KILOMETERS AN HOUR MAKING THE TRIP FROM THE GROUND TO THE MAIN OBSERVATION LEVEL A QUICK 40 SECONDS?
*DID YOU KNOW THERE ARE THREE MAIN EMERGENCY ROOMS CALLED THE REFUGE ROOMS
Highlights of our trip
Our highlights of our trip are...
*watching a 14 minute video about the history of the Sky Tower and NZ!
*going into the lift to the main observation deck.
*looking out from the observation deck.
*going down a few levels of stairs to the refuge room.
*having free time at the observation deck, looking at Rangitoto, Great Barrier island and seeing other cool stuff from the lookout.
*answering questions at the observation deck and if you got it correct you got a green dot if you got it wrong you got a red dot.And the questions were...
*What is the tallest tower in the southern hemisphere?
*What is does the Sky tower weigh?
*How long can you see by looking from the main observation deck?
So at the end everyone had a great time, learning about our new topic (structures) lots of people hope they can next time bring some $money$ and buy something hopefully, so they have a terrific time there. Just to visit though.:)
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