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Hi Alissa,

It's not clear (to me, at least) if you WANT visitors to visit every
station.

If you do want visitors to visit each station, in my experience it seems to
work best to connect the task of visiting each station into some storyline
with an inherent challenge, rather than points (Points for what? valuable
prizes?)

For example, "Can you help Screwy Squirrel find five different leaf shapes
around the museum?"

Certain types of visitors really rise to these types of challenges and will
really expend a great deal of effort in completing the inventory of
stations.

Also, many visitors enjoy the added challenge of finding all the stations if
there is some "bonus" to visiting each station like being able to use all
the answers/pictures/whatever from each station to complete the answer to a
riddle, or solve a code, etc. (For instance, using the leaf example above,
"Can you solve the riddle by making a word from the first letter of the name
of the tree each leaf comes from?")

Good luck!


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On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Daniels, Alissa <
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>
> We are in the process of designing an exhibit that consists of a series of
> stations throughout the building. At each station, they kids play a
> game/activity. The stations don't build on each other, so you don't need to
> do them in order, although you do score points at each station.
>
> Does anyone have experience with this sort of thing?
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Alissa Daniels, Science Program Manager/Senior Educator
> Boston Children's Museum
>
>

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