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

• Debuted 3/11/06 with automated show about the planets using NASA and NOAA data

• Equivalent of an automated planetarium show

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

• 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

Worldwide wind patterns 2005

Data from Jim Potemra at IPRC (International Pacific Research Center), University of Hawaii

Worldwide hot spots 2005 (fires, volcanoes, oil rigs)

Data from Eric Pilger at HIGP (Hawaii Institute Geophysics and Planetology), University of HI

Global Warming exhibit

• Opened 11/17/06

• Funding came from NOAA Science Literacy Grant

Opened new live demonstration on Global Warming on SOS on same

day

VIP opening on November 17, 2006

NOAA Hawaii Staff at opening

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

Future plans

• News/weather broadcasts

• Lecture series

• Teacher workshops

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