A National Traveling Exhibition on the Biology of Sharks

洛杉矶县自然历史博物馆将设计、建造一个3000平方英尺的关于鲨鱼生物学的旅游自然历史展览，并在全国15个博物馆和超过100万名游客中展出。展览将包括安装标本、文物、模型和复制品，以及互动展览元素。它将为游客提供海底鲨鱼世界的图片，它们的多样性和数量；了解鲨鱼的基本生物学，包括鲨鱼与硬骨鱼的区别，它们的化石和现在的自然历史，繁殖和行为；通过对历史上，神话中，以及人类目前对海洋环境的密集利用中鲨鱼和人类之间的相互作用的欣赏。每个博物馆都将提供教师指南和学校贷款的物品和文物学习包。参观者对鲨鱼的误解已经进行了大量的事先分析，形成性评估将用于选择展览组件和互动技术。400美元的费用分摊占项目总额的52%。

The Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History will design, construct and circulate a 3,000 square foot travelling natural history exhibition on the biology of sharks to 15 museums and more than 1,000,000 visitors nationwide. The exhibition will include mounted specimens, artifacts, models and replicas, and interactive exhibition elements. It will provide visitors with a picture of the undersea world of sharks, their diversity and abundance; with an understanding of the basic biology of sharks, including sharks' differences from bony fish, their fossil and current natural history, reproduction, and behavior; and with an appreciation of the interaction between sharks and humans in history, in myth, and in man's current intensive use of ocean environments. A teacher's guide and school loan study kits of objects and artifacts will be available in each museum location. Substantial prior analysis of visitor misconceptions about sharks has been done, and formative evaluation will be used to select exhibit components and interactive technologies. The $400.00 cost share is 52% of the project total.