Responses as to which exhibits and display panels at Indiana State Fair inspired most interest in adult education were correlated. Polled were adult education experts and random selection of fairgoers. Article suggests how to use fairs to attract interest in adult education programs. (PD)

Children from Jewish schools in New York participated in an art exhibit with an environmental theme. (SP)

Amid controversy, a former Paris slaughterhouse is being converted into one of the world's largest science museums. The museum will be organized into four major sectors corresponding to different levels at which science and technology touch human lives: exploring, using/producing, living/inhabitating, and communications. The controversy related to…

Briefly describes a computer fair conducted by the Winn Brook Parent Teachers Association in Massachusetts in order to raise funds to purchase microcomputers for elementary schools. Over 50 computers were available for hands-on demonstrations and several vendors exhibited computer software. (JJD)

Describes the viewing sessions and the holograms of a holographic road show. The traveling exhibits, believed to stimulate interest in physics, include a wide variety of holograms and demonstrate several physical principles. (GA)

Describes how students from New York City High Schools of Instructional Technology Programs demonstrated cabling and networking for industry representatives from all over the world at the CeBIT America Trade fair. (JOW)

The Dallas Science Place contains 55 interactive displays on observable phenomena, organized into 7 topic areas: motion, waves, matter, electromagnetism, energy, change, and entropy. Attempts were made to keep the exhibits' forms elemental, so that the underlying physical phenomena could be readily observed and experienced. (JDD)

Examines Richard Avedon's photographic exhibit "In the American West" both as a work of art and as an important link to contemporary philosophical thought, particularly that of Jean-Paul Sartre, through its depiction of the human condition. Notes that the exhibit used as a teaching resource engages students in questions concerning art…

Winners of the 1989 Architectural Exhibition sponsored annually by the ASBO International's School Facilities Research Committee include the Brevard Performing Arts Center (Melbourne, Florida), the Capital High School (Santa Fe, New Mexico), Gage Elementary School (Rochester, Minnesota), the Lakewood (Ohio) High School Natatorium, and three other…

"Contextual areas" employ models, replicas, artwork, art materials, tools, interpretive panels, and interactive computer installations to help visitors explore the historical and cultural context of 6 of 12 works of art at the "Art Inside Out" exhibition in the Kraft General Foods Education Center of the Art Institute of Chicago. (MDH)

Explores the lives of the Issei, the Japanese who came to Hawaii, and the U.S. mainland between 1885 and 1924. Examines the immigrants' problems with discriminatory laws in the United States. Discusses the establishment of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles (California). Describes some of the exhibits on display at the museum.…

Family-and-consumer-sciences students worked with community agencies and residents to prepare an exhibit of family photographs. The project supported development of students' cross-cultural competence and professional skills. (SK)

Describes an exhibit called Kid's Kitchen, built within a major exhibit called Biodiversity: Life Supporting Life, in order to discuss environmental prompts hidden within the kitchen designed to surprise students and get them thinking. (ASK)

This paper explores one school's implementation of a locally developed curriculum reform known as "Math-Science Investigations". At one level, it offers an account of a reform told from the perspective of a classroom teacher and her 3rd- and 4th-graders. At another level, it reconstructs their experience to explore the understandings of the…

Science museum staff face a constructivist dilemma as they design their public spaces: the exhibits should facilitate science learning, yet they also need to support a diverse visiting public in making their own personal choices about where to attend, what to do, and how to interpret their interactions. To be effective as teaching tools, exhibits…