Found 10 - 20 results of 38 programs matching keyword " exhibit development" |
Reflections: Framing the Real Thing (Clip)
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At the Giant Mirror, Senior Staff Scientist Paul Doherty demonstrates a simple way of locating a real image—an image that floats in space in front of the mirror.
Project: Reflections | Browse All
Date: September 9, 2009
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Physics
Keywords: mirror, reflection, focus, curvature, exhibit, real, virtual
Project: Reflections | Browse All
Date: September 9, 2009
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Physics
Keywords: mirror, reflection, focus, curvature, exhibit, real, virtual
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Reflections: Testing the Giant Mirror's Sphericity (Clip)
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Senior Staff Scientist Thomas Humphrey invents a simple experiment to see if the Giant Mirror is spherical or parabolic, and then to see if it's perfectly spherical. By placing a Styrofoam ball at the center of curvature, he's able to prove that the mirror is out of pure sphericity by about one-quarter of one degree.
Project: Reflections | Browse All
Date: September 7, 2009
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Physics
Keywords: mirror, reflection, focus, curvature, exhibit, sphere, experiment
Project: Reflections | Browse All
Date: September 7, 2009
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Physics
Keywords: mirror, reflection, focus, curvature, exhibit, sphere, experiment
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Reflections: Reflections of Infrared Radiation (Clip)
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Staff Neuroscientist Richard Brown demonstrates that the Giant Mirror reflects infrared radiation as well as visible light.
Project: Reflections | Browse All
Date: September 5, 2009
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Physics
Keywords: mirror, reflection, exhibit, light, heat, experiment
Project: Reflections | Browse All
Date: September 5, 2009
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Physics
Keywords: mirror, reflection, exhibit, light, heat, experiment
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Science Teaching Tips: Survival Guide (Podcast)
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It’s tough for a new teacher to keep up with everything from labs to professional development. TI teacher coach Arlette Manders provides a potpourri of tips on how to make life a little easier.
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: July 29, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):
Keywords: professional, development, tips, teaching
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: July 29, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):
Keywords: professional, development, tips, teaching
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Science Teaching Tips: We Won Best Professional Development Podcast! (Podcast)
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Hear an interview with our host, Stephanie Chasteen, about why podcasts can be great professional development tools for teachers. The interview is excerpted from an episode of the Podcast for Teachers, which gave us the award for Best Professional Development Podcast.
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: April 15, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):
Keywords: podcast, professional, development, teachers
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: April 15, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):
Keywords: podcast, professional, development, teachers
| Links: | Podcast for Teachers |
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Mind: Mind: A Major Exhibit Collection with 40 New Exhibits (Clip)
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Preview the Exploratorium's Mind exhibit, an exhibit collection four years in the making.
In Mind, you are the exhibit. Experience your own thoughts, feelings and actions in provocative and unexpected ways in this major new 5000-square-foot collection. Discover insights into how you make decisions, the kinds of things you do (or don’t) pay attention to, and the changing landscapes and intriguing effects of your own emotions. Mind is made possible with the support of the National Science Foundation.
Project: Mind | Browse All
Date: March 1, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Cognitive Science/Psychology
Keywords: mind, thought, feeling, emotion, interactive, exhibit, decision-making
In Mind, you are the exhibit. Experience your own thoughts, feelings and actions in provocative and unexpected ways in this major new 5000-square-foot collection. Discover insights into how you make decisions, the kinds of things you do (or don’t) pay attention to, and the changing landscapes and intriguing effects of your own emotions. Mind is made possible with the support of the National Science Foundation.
Project: Mind | Browse All
Date: March 1, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Cognitive Science/Psychology
Keywords: mind, thought, feeling, emotion, interactive, exhibit, decision-making
| Links: | Mind Press Kit |
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Exhibit Services: Aeolian Landscape (Clip)
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Aeolian Landscape is an exhibit in which a miniature wind-swept desert landscape is recreated by an electric fan and finely ground sand that mimics the process of wind picking up and depositing small particles. Visitors can change the direction of the fan, influencing the shape of the dunes.
Project: Exploratorium Exhibit Services | Browse All
Date: January 10, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Art, Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: art, aeolian, exhibit, ned kahn, wind, sand, dune, simulation
Project: Exploratorium Exhibit Services | Browse All
Date: January 10, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Art, Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: art, aeolian, exhibit, ned kahn, wind, sand, dune, simulation
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Exhibit Services: Balancing Ball (Clip)
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At the Balancing Ball exhibit, a plastic beach ball floats mysteriously several feet above a large plastic cone. Upon closer inspection, the ball is found to be floating on a stream of air blowing out of the cone; visitors interact with the ball, changing its position in relation to the air flow.
Project: Exploratorium Exhibit Services | Browse All
Date: January 10, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science
Keywords: ball, air, airflow, float, stream, exhibit
Project: Exploratorium Exhibit Services | Browse All
Date: January 10, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science
Keywords: ball, air, airflow, float, stream, exhibit
| QuickTime: 308K |
Seeing Gallery: Virtual Unreality: Scalable Cities (Clip)
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Artist Sheldon Brown creates an urban/suburban/rural environment in which the visitor literally "paints" the flying landscape with highways, buildings, and automobiles. This exhibit was part of the Virtual Unreality exhibition.
Project: Seeing Gallery | Browse All
Date: January 1, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art, General Science
Keywords: exhibit, virtual, virtual environment, interactive, virtual unrealtity
Project: Seeing Gallery | Browse All
Date: January 1, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art, General Science
Keywords: exhibit, virtual, virtual environment, interactive, virtual unrealtity
| Links: | Press Release: Virtual Unreality Interactive Digital Artworks |
Teacher Institute: Welcome to the Teacher Institute Family! (Podcast)
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If you’ve been accepted into our Summer Institute, we suggest you listen to this short podcast, which tells you some things we think you should know about the program before you arrive.
Project: Teacher Institute Summer Institute | Browse All
Date: April 17, 2007
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): General Science
Keywords: teacher, education, professional development, workshop
Project: Teacher Institute Summer Institute | Browse All
Date: April 17, 2007
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): General Science
Keywords: teacher, education, professional development, workshop
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