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Re: Weather Exhibits
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Aiona Bones <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 8 Oct 2010 12:46:42 -0700
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The Exploratorium just put together an earth exhibition with several weather
pieces. It's currently at Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in San Diego. Some
of the pieces are Exploratorium classics, like the Tornado, and you can find
instructions for making them in the Exploratorium Science Snackbook. We also
make an exhibit that explains why the sky is blue. Illustrating the concept
is very cheap and simple, making it nice is really just cosmetic. Here are
instructions for a stripped down version:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/blue_sky/index.html. Ned Kahn also does
incredible pieces with fog and wind. Here's his site: http://nedkahn.com/.
Good luck.

Aiona Bones
ExNET Educator
Exploratorium

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Elton Prater
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:

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>  Hi, All;
>  We are redoing our weather exhibit area. We currently have a partnership
> with our local National Weather Service office and have data feeds of their
> information as well as kiosk weather quiz computers from them, and we have
> the "standard" weather type exhibits (aeolian landscape, tornado, fluvial
> storm, and confused sea). I was wondering if anyone had any
> ideas/suggestions for other small hands-on  weather exhibit pieces. I would
> prefer something that we could fabricate, but off-the-shelf is a
> possibility.
>
> So, any brilliant ideas, or a concept you have seen somewhere that I can
> steal?
>
> Your help is much appreciated.
>
> Elton Prater
> Exhibits Mgr.
> Science Spectrum
> Lubbock, TX
> (tornado ally)
>
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Aiona Bones
ExNET

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