Sponsoring Teachers: Bill Lescohier, Iain Anderson, and Jonah Weaver

Overview

This intersession experience will take fifteen students to the Exploratorium to analyze and evaluate the different exhibits at the museum.

The exhibits demonstrate numerous scientific concepts, and ideas. Students will observe and choose one or two exhibits to replicate on campus at TMS. They will be required to use and practice skills in measuring and planning, as well as learning to assemble an exhibit quality structure with power tools. 

Wednesday Day 1:  Morning discussion of plan.  Show examples of what exhibits are.  Verbally go over exhibits that are capable of being reproduced, and go over what information is needed to create a final product.  Handout Exploratorium map with certain exhibits highlighted, and take a trip there to see an example of what we are going to create, and get any information that would be necessary from a live example.

Thursday Day 2:  Plan out the materials needed, and begin building.  Possible trip to hardware store for specific items.

Friday Day 3:  Construction of exhibit.

Monday Day 4:  Construction of exhibit and plan presentation description.

Tuesday Day 5:  Finalize presentation and install exhibit.

Students will be doing a number of things throughout each step of the project.  They may be working on construction of the exhibit, as well as videoing and/or photographing progress.  Students will be asked to blog each day of the project creating a final product and blow by blow account of each day’s progress online.