Dear colleagues,

For any of you involved in creating science museum exhibits, this is a great new resource to check out. Thanks!

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NEW! Left Coast Press, Inc. is pleased to announce:

Group Inquiry at Science Museum Exhibits: Getting Visitors to Ask Juicy Questions
Joshua P. Gutwill and Sue Allen
102 pages, $19.95 paperback (15% discount on web orders at www.LCoastPress.com)  

This brief volume describes an innovative activity that can be used by museum professionals to foster two key inquiry skills—asking a good question and articulating discoveries. A hybrid between a research report and a how-to manual, it describes the development, evaluation, and results of Juicy Question, a collaborative activity designed to foster group inquiry among families or school field trips. The authors demonstrate how the activity changed the behavior of museum visitors and taught them important inquiry skills for use in other informal education settings. Sponsored by the Exploratorium, San Francisco.

For additional information, including the table of contents, and to place your order, visit our website at
http://www.lcoastpress.com/book.php?id=306

ISBN: 978-0-943451-63-3 (paperback)

PRICE  (15% discount on web orders at www.LCoastPress.com): 
$19.95

“Gutwill and Allen offer a rare combination of careful attention to the learner, deep respect for the development and design process, and a rigorous research approach. With this gem, they once again take giant steps that advance the interactive museum's ability to play an important role in the life of the learner.”
—Kirsten Ellenbogen, Director of Evaluation & Research in Learning, Science Museum of Minnesota

“[This book] will help many of us think about our work differently—by approaching our design work with the goal of eliciting ‘juicy questions’ for ourselves and for our visitors. This is one of the best examples of what is meant by inquiry: an elegantly simple example of the deeply transformative process of inquiry.”
—Kathleen McLean, Principal, Independent Exhibitions

“[This book] reveals new horizons for scaffolded collaborative learning through shared mediated experiences that support transitions between formal and informal contexts.”
—Janette Griffin, Senior Lecturer, University of Technology, Sydney

“...[provides] strong evidence for the potential of interactive science museum exhibits to allow visitors to engage in extended inquiry.…particularly useful for the field because they committed themselves to carrying out their investigations using strong research design and carefully tried to address as many variables as possible in the difficult environment of a designed informal learning environment (i.e. a science museum).”
—George Hein, Professor Emeritus, Lesley University

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Stefania R. Van Dyke
Museum Studies & Practice
Left Coast Press, Inc.
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