The Powerful Educational Potential of Traveling Space Science Exhibits

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Apr 2003

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EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly, Abstracts from the meeting held in Nice, France, 6 - 11 April 2003, abstract #13932

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Five traveling exhibits (both large and small) related to space science are currently touring the U. S., and two more have recently been funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA. These extraordinary educational resources address topics like space weather, Mars exploration, cosmology, the results of Hubble Space Telescope, and the origins of stars, planets, and life. The Space Science Institute (SSI) of Boulder, Colorado, plays leadership roles in four of the seven exhibits. This paper will summarize the nature and itineraries of these exhibits, and how they serve as rallying points for education and public outreach activities across the entire spectrum of science communication. The talk will give special attention to workshops SSI has conducted at MarsQuest host sites for museum educators, docents, and local educators to bolster the host site's ability to do programming around the exhibit content. These workshops have shown promise of leaving a host site with a legacy of new educational capabilities and enhanced connectivity with space scientists and educators in the region. The talk will also address progress on the MarsQuest On-Line project which uses the 5000 sq ft (500 sq m) exhibit as a conceptual framework for an interactive website.

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