Exploratorium Science Exhibits from Birth to Death

Date: September 28 2006

Location: Palo Alto, California, USA

Website: http://www.parc.com

About This Event

PARC FORUM
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

At the Exploratorium, scientists team with exhibit builders to create interactive science exhibits for the public. The best exhibits are enjoyed equally by 4 year-olds and physics professors. I will tell how several exhibits were made, and how they worked or failed when used by the public. (Some failed in spectacular ways: burning up, imploding, or dissolving.) The Exploratorium also has a large web site. I'll present stories of some of our web programs such as "Iron Science Teacher"? in which science teachers compete to teach science with simple materials. I'll illustrate my presentation with demonstrations from the Exploratorium.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Paul Doherty, Exploratorium Teacher Institute
In 1986, I came to the Exploratorium Teacher Institute and began my exhibit-based explorations in science. I became the co-director of the Teacher Institute in 1990 and the founding director of the Center for Teaching and Learning in 1992. Since 1997 I have been a senior staff scientist at the Exploratorium. I am also a visiting scientist at Tom Tits Experiment in Sweden and an adjunct professor of physics at San Francisco State University. In 2002 I was awarded the Distinguished Teacher Award by the American Association of Physics teachers, Northern California Section. In 2003 I was given the NSTA's Faraday Award for excellence as a science communicator.

As an author, I have have co-authored the Exploratorium Science Snackbook, and the book Square Wheels with Don Rathjen. For Klutz Press I have co-written the Explorabook which has sold over a million copies, and also the Book of Magnetic Magic, the Zap book, and Glove Compartment Science.

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design, exhibit, exploratorium