Exploratorium
Institute for Inquiry

Barry holds a Ph.D. in physics. Barry became involved with inquiry-based education in 1971 when he worked as a research educator with David Hawkins at the Mountain View Center in Boulder, Colorado. He is the author of The Exploratorium Guide to Scale and Structure: Activities for the Elementary Classroom, published in 1995 by Heinemann Press. More recently, Barry provided technical assistance to WGBH's Investigating Classrooms video project and is on the advisory board for WNET's Learning Science Through Inquiry workshops. He also served on an advisory panel for CPB/Annenberg's video project for teaching science content to teachers.