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I am a Senior secondary biology major and I would like all helpful hints
if you have any.

Kay Lancaster wrote:
> 
> If anyone has suggestions, they'd be gratefully received.  In fact, I
> wouldn't mind trying to talk the museum into a multi-disciplinary
> "powers of 10/logs" exhibit, but whatever we design has to be able to
> withstand the torture tests that museum visitors put an exhibit through.
---
Philip Morrison (and his wife) wrote a book on this a few yr back. I 
vaguely recall it is called Powers of 10, but not sure. It was intended 
for "popular consumption", and might give you some good ideas.
bob

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I would try to, for example, have a car-driving videogame or arcade 
game (this should withstand museum crowds) 
where the speed is set in logs instead of linear. Anything
of this kind might be helpful to give the "feel" of the scale.
Good luck- Inga Karliner
In article , klier@hub.fern.com (Kay Lancaster) writes:
>
>I'm a docent at a science museum, and old botany teacher.  As I was
>trying to explain earthquake damage yesterday, I realized that most of
>our visitors had no real grasp of a log scale -- unless they were at least
>as old as I was and had worked with slide rules.  It's a useful
>tool in many branches of science... pH in chemistry, richter scales
>for earthquakes, decibels in physics and biology, etc.    
>
>Currently we have a set of coffee cans with 1, 10, 100, 1000 etc. units of
>rice in them that the visitors can heft.  I'd like to add some other
>"exhibits" (preferably multisensory demonstrations) to help our visitors
>grasp the meaning of a change from say, 3 to 4 on the Richter scale.
>
>If anyone has suggestions, they'd be gratefully received.  In fact, I
>wouldn't mind trying to talk the museum into a multi-disciplinary
>"powers of 10/logs" exhibit, but whatever we design has to be able to
>withstand the torture tests that museum visitors put an exhibit through.
>
>
>Kay Lancaster   klier@fern.com
>

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> http://www.lme.mankato.msus.edu/ci/elem.sci.htmlKarl A. Matz wrote:
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> http://www.lme.mankato.msus.edu/ci/elem.sci.htmlThe map of the night sky sounds interesting.  It would be good if it 
would point out the different constellations and the name of them.

Karl A. Matz wrote:
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> http://www.lme.mankato.msus.edu/ci/elem.sci.htmlKarl A. Matz wrote:
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> ELEMNTARY SCIENCE THIS MONTH is a monthly electronic
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> http://www.lme.mankato.msus.edu/ci/elem.sci.htmlThe map of the night sky sounds interesting.  It would be good if it 
would point out the different constellations and the name of them.

Karl A. Matz wrote:
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> ELEMNTARY SCIENCE THIS MONTH is a monthly electronic
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> teach them.  Every month ESTM features an animal, a
> scientist, a map of the night sky, science activities and a
> question of the month asked by one of our users.  ESTM for
> November is now ready and online.  See it at:
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> http://www.lme.mankato.msus.edu/ci/elem.sci.htmlKarl A. Matz wrote:
> 
> ELEMNTARY SCIENCE THIS MONTH is a monthly electronic
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> teach them.  Every month ESTM features an animal, a
> scientist, a map of the night sky, science activities and a
> question of the month asked by one of our users.  ESTM for
> November is now ready and online.  See it at:
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> http://www.lme.mankato.msus.edu/ci/elem.sci.htmlThe map of the night sky sounds interesting.  It would be good if it 
would point out the different constellations and the name of them.

Karl A. Matz wrote:
> 
> ELEMNTARY SCIENCE THIS MONTH is a monthly electronic
> magazine for elementary aged children and the teachers who
> teach them.  Every month ESTM features an animal, a
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> question of the month asked by one of our users.  ESTM for
> November is now ready and online.  See it at:
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> http://www.lme.mankato.msus.edu/ci/elem.sci.htmlKarl A. Matz wrote:
> 
> ELEMNTARY SCIENCE THIS MONTH is a monthly electronic
> magazine for elementary aged children and the teachers who
> teach them.  Every month ESTM features an animal, a
> scientist, a map of the night sky, science activities and a
> question of the month asked by one of our users.  ESTM for
> November is now ready and online.  See it at:
> 
> http://www.lme.mankato.msus.edu/ci/elem.sci.htmlThe map of the night sky sounds interesting.  It would be good if it 
would point out the different constellations and the name of them.

Karl A. Matz wrote:
> 
> ELEMNTARY SCIENCE THIS MONTH is a monthly electronic
> magazine for elementary aged children and the teachers who
> teach them.  Every month ESTM features an animal, a
> scientist, a map of the night sky, science activities and a
> question of the month asked by one of our users.  ESTM for
> November is now ready and online.  See it at:
> 
> http://www.lme.mankato.msus.edu/ci/elem.sci.htmlKarl A. Matz wrote:
> 
> ELEMNTARY SCIENCE THIS MONTH is a monthly electronic
> magazine for elementary aged children and the teachers who
> teach them.  Every month ESTM features an animal, a
> scientist, a map of the night sky, science activities and a
> question of the month asked by one of our users.  ESTM for
> November is now ready and online.  See it at:
> 
> http://www.lme.mankato.msus.edu/ci/elem.sci.htmlThe map of the night sky sounds interesting.  It would be good if it 
would point out the different constellations and the name of them.