The Magic School Bus Gets Weather Wise: A National Traveling Exhibit and Educational Programs on Meteorology

神奇校车了解天气情况：全国巡回展览和气象教育项目

• 批准号: 0003519
• 负责人: Cheryl McCallum
• 金额: $ 161.41万
• 依托单位: The Children's Museum of Houston
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-05-15 至 2006-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0003519&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Magic; Bus; Gets; Weather; Wise

The Children's Museum of Houston, in cooperation with Scholastic Entertainment, the National Weather Service and the American Meteorological Society (AMS), will develop, produce and nationally circulate two (2) copies of a 2,500-sq.ft. interactive exhibit. Using the popular icon of the Magic School Bus, the exhibit will take young children on a journey of discovery to explore the science involved in the Earth's weather. The exhibit, "The Magic School Bus Gets Weather Wise," and accompanying educational materials and programs will be bilingual in Spanish and English and will support national and Texas standards for science and mathematics learning for children aged 5-10. It is estimated that the exhibit and programs will serve 2,000,000 children and adults in 36 national venues over six (6) years.Weather Exploration Stations will precede the exhibit to encourage community engagement prior to the exhibit's arrival at the host venue. AMS scientists, local meteorologists and media weathercasters will assist visitor experiences and help museums with strategies for publicity campaigns and development of local programming. The visiting audiences of children and their families will learn meteorology is a study of weather, there are different types of weather, a variety of tools are used in predicting weather and the water cycle plays a role in weather events. Visitors will read data from maps, graphs, thermometers, anemometers, experiment with variables and model weather conditions using interactive exhibit components.

休斯顿儿童博物馆与学术娱乐，国家气象局和美国气象学会（AMS）合作，将开发，制作和全国发行两（2）份2,500平方英尺的副本。互动展览。 利用魔术校车的流行图标，展览将带孩子们踏上发现之旅，探索与地球天气有关的科学。 展览，“魔术校车得到天气明智的，”和配套的教育材料和方案将在西班牙语和英语双语，并将支持国家和得克萨斯州的标准，科学和数学学习的儿童5-10岁。 据估计，展览和节目将在六（6）年内为36个国家场馆的2，000，000名儿童和成人提供服务。天气探测站将在展览之前，以鼓励社区在展览抵达主办场地之前参与。 AMS科学家、当地气象学家和媒体天气预报员将协助游客体验，并帮助博物馆制定宣传活动和制定当地节目的战略。 儿童及其家人的参观观众将学习气象学是一门研究天气的学科，有不同类型的天气，各种工具用于预测天气和水循环在天气事件中发挥作用。 参观者将从地图、图表、温度计、风速计中读取数据，使用交互式展览组件进行变量实验和天气条件模型。