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Science on a Sphere

Science on a Sphere. Presented by Bishop Museum and Sponsored by NOAA. SOS at Bishop Museum. Support: NOAA Office of Education (Environmental Literacy Grant) and NOAA Pacific Services Center. Barrier from Octanorm. Opening day – Mad About Science, March 11, 2006. Bishop Museum programs.

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Science on a Sphere

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  1. Science on a Sphere Presented by Bishop Museum and Sponsored by NOAA

  2. SOS at Bishop Museum Support: NOAA Office of Education (Environmental Literacy Grant) and NOAA Pacific Services Center

  3. Barrier from Octanorm

  4. Opening day – Mad About Science, March 11, 2006

  5. Bishop Museum programs • Debuted 3/11/06 with automated show about the planets using NASA and NOAA data • Equivalent of an automated planetarium show

  6. Live shows started with “Climate of Paradise” in late spring 2006—using sphere to explain climate of Hawaii

  7. With this “Science of Paradise” demonstration we started using Hawaii/Pacific NOAA as resources for datasets • We also started using animations with the debut of this show IPRC Sea Surface Temperature

  8. Worldwide wind patterns 2005 Data from Jim Potemra at IPRC (International Pacific Research Center), University of Hawaii

  9. Worldwide hot spots 2005 (fires, volcanoes, oil rigs) Data from Eric Pilgerat HIGP (Hawaii Institute Geophysics and Planetology), University of HI

  10. Global Warming exhibit • Opened 11/17/06 • Funding came from NOAA Science Literacy Grant

  11. Opened new live demonstration on Global Warming on SOS on same day

  12. VIP opening on November 17, 2006

  13. NOAA Hawaii Staff at opening

  14. Stats to date • Total of all visitors to Bishop who have seen Science on a Sphere since March 2006 180,431 • Live demonstration attendance: 7,740 • Footprints attendance (Dec 8 – 10, 2006): 678

  15. Future plans • News/weather broadcasts • Lecture series • Teacher workshops

  16. School Programs for all grades 5th Grade • Program Name: Destination Solar System. • Science Standards: • 5.8.1 Describe the relationship (size & distance) of earth and other components in the solar system • 5.8.3 Explain that the planets orbit the sun and that the moon orbits the Earth

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