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I have always been fond of environmental "stuff".  For example, at the Indianapolis Children's Museum many years ago, they had a pond/stream arrangement with wildlife.  Kids would watch the fish and turtles, and follow them all over the place.  They really stuck with it for extended periods of time.  

Many of the physics exhibits we usually see are not explored as fully as we would like to think they are, pan pipes get banged a few times (maybe a budding musician does Mary Had a Little Lamb), and kids tend to run wild in mazes.  Whisper dishes usually end up with kids yelling into them.
Beryl

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>From: Lynn Baum <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Mar 30, 2010 11:31 AM
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>Subject: Re: Outdoor Exhibits
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>I like the outdoor miniature golf exhibits - all kinds of themes can be 
>plugged in and it has great appeal across all the age ranges.
>Lynn Baum
>Senior Exhibit Developer/Educational Programs
>Jan Crocker LLC
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>On 3/30/10 9:51 AM, Dennis Bateman wrote:
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>> Everyone -
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>> Let me focus my original question a bit -
>>
>> We've got a $12,000 donation and a nice patch of flat lawn (triangular, about 40 feet long and 15 feet wide at the widest end).
>>
>> We are doing a nice native-planting/river landscaping thing on another piece of riverfront property, so no need to rivers stuff on this patch.  I was thinking more along the lines of echo tubes, etc. - solid, few moving parts, last 5-10 years.  Too cloudy for fun Clore Garden solar stuff, and water/plumbing is too expensive for this area. (Could I make this more impossible?!)
>>
>> My own list, and a summary of this discussion (minus the water ones) runs to:
>>
>> Giant 'magnifying glasses' with different filters and lenses
>> A field of 6-foot turbines
>> Drums
>> Pan Pipes
>> Echo Tubes
>> Sound Delay Tubes
>> Heat Tunnels - one black, one white
>> Element Stones (Flush-to-ground 'headstones', each with an element on it)
>> Torsion Wave
>> Lever Lifter
>> Human Sun-Dial
>> Hedge Maze
>> Rock Maze
>> Optical Illusion Sculptures
>> Sand
>> Rock Maze
>>
>> - Dennis Bateman
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