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Elton,

some thoughts for some simple direct hands on exhibits on your topic

the "wind over a house with hinged roof" pressure exhibit ( called lots
of thigns in various centres)

a simple setup to show the beufort scale of wind speeds ( leaves to
rustle, .... with their breath, or a fan, or just a graphic panel near a
window so they can "rate" the wind speed outside ( check against an
anemometer's version of the wind speed).

a modest air flow ( from a fan or small blower) and  get people to
reprot if the air stream is warmer or colder than the air around ( give
then moist towels perhaps or some sensible way to wet/moisten they
hands).. introduce wind chill..

here in Australia ( and elsewhere in the sciecne centre world) we do
small ( up to a meter high) fire tornado demonstrations..
you can set up small "ice forming under micoscope" stations with peltier
systems that are quick, quiet and controllable, these can be very
pretty.

for a water exhiition we did recently, we developed a rain dance
inteactive ( using a video projection onto floor with video camera based
motion tracking) of peoples feet. The "view" was from up in the clouds,
and if you herded enough small water droplets together, they would
collide, fuse, form larger drops, and if your persisted the drop would
then fall as rain.. and you'd see the drops falling away from your feet
towards the ground.. 

we developed a simple "seasons in a spin" exhibit ( a globe of the earth
and a sun - as a bright light), ( a simple two object orrery) with the
earth tilted, and you could move the earth around its orbit, and with
the tilt see from the light levels falling on the earth how the seasons
are driven..

probably others which aren't coming to mind at the moment.. but I'll
post any more that occur to me.

LOTS of stuff which is great to do outside...
all the best

DR Stuart Kohlhagen
Manager Research and Development
Questacon
The National Science and Technology Centre Canberra






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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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