Electric Space: Exploring our Plasma Universe

9453798杜森贝里科罗拉多州博尔德市空间科学研究所将与富兰克林研究所科学博物馆和电力生产者研究所合作，开发一个3,000平方英尺的空间。英国《金融时报》巡回展览，题为电子空间：探索我们的等离子体宇宙。参观展览的参观者将被介绍太阳的物理和极光。他们将了解太阳的可变性对在太空工作的技术和人类的影响。展览分为七个部分：太空不是空的；天空观察者；等离子体：物质的第四状态；动态太阳；行星地球：大磁铁；接近起点：日光层；以及宇宙连接。它的设计是基于创造一个完全沉浸的环境的愿望，这将允许参观者探索等离子体大学的许多领域，从地球的高层大气到遥远的星系。开发人员的意图是通过专注于过程而不是事实来揭开科学的神秘面纱，创造一个激动人心的非正式学习环境，接触到不同的受众，激励年轻人将科学作为一种兴趣和事业，并使展览成为科学界和普通公众之间的接口。除了展览外，还将与科罗拉多大学的科学发现项目合作，开发使用探究式方法的补充课程模块。这些材料将为教师、学生和家长提供探索展览中所展示的概念的机会。将实施一项广泛的评估计划。展览将于1995年夏天在马里兰科学中心开幕。然后，它将在美国九个主要城市巡回演出，接触到大约200万成年人和儿童，他们代表着年龄、教育和种族背景的巨大差异。

9453798 Dusenbery The Space Science Institute of Boulder, Colorado in partnership with the Franklin Institute Science Museum and the Electric Producers Research Institute will develop a 3000 sq. ft. traveling exhibit entitled Electric Space: Exploring Our Plasma Universe. Visitors to the exhibit will be introduced to the physics of the sun and the polar aurora. They will learn about the effect solar variability has on technology and humans working in space. The exhibit is divided into seven sections: Space is Not Empty; SkyWatchers; Plasma: the Fourth State of Matter; The Dynamic Sun; Planet Earth: a Great Magnet; Reaching Toward the Starts: the Heliosphere; and The Cosmic Connection. Its design is guided by the desire to create a total immersion environment that will allow visitors to explore the many realm of the plasma university from Earth's upper atmosphere to distant galaxies. It is the developers intention to demystify science by concentrating on process rather than facts, to create a stimulating informal learning environment, to reach a diverse audience, to motivate young people to pursue science as an interest and a career, and to have the exhibit serve as an interface between the scientific community and the general public. In addition to the exhibit, supplemental curriculum modules using an inquiry-based approach will be developed in cooperation with the Science Discovery Project at the University of Colorado. These materials will provide teachers, students, and parents the opportunity to explore the concepts presented in the exhibit. An extensive evaluation plan will be carried. The exhibit will open at the Maryland Science Center the summer of 1995. It will then travel to nine major US cities reaching an estimated two million adults and children who represent a great diversity of ages and education an ethnic backgrounds.