You don’t have to be a climate scientist to teach climate change, and you don’t have to be an experienced storyteller to infuse climate content with stories. Explore these educator resources for using ...

See yourself as others see you in this cylindrical mirror. A flat mirror will always reflect an image that's right side up and reversed right to left. A cylindrical mirror can produce images that are ...

Jim is a high school science teacher from Mercer Island, Washington, and nationally respected learning researcher. His experience was of great use in our teacher programs, especially for the Teacher ...

SAN FRANCISCO (December 2, 2025) – The Exploratorium is delighted to announce James Allister Sprang as its next Artist-In-Residence (AIR), following the museum’s first-ever open call for the program.

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Take off and fly in a mirror that makes half your body look whole. Here’s an exhibit where watching is at least half the fun. Positioned at one end of this large flat mirror, you can create any number ...

Gas Model is a transparent plastic cylinder with bouncing balls activated by a vibrating plate. The moving balls lift a disk to a height which depends on the amount of energy introduced by the ...

Eleanor is a cognitive psychologist, educational theorist, and constructivist educator. A former student, colleague, leading translator, and interpreter of Jean Piaget, as well as renowned Professor ...

Denise Middleton (formerly King) currently holds the position of Director of Exhibit Development at the Exploratorium. In her role, she promotes curiosity, humility, and rigor in exhibit development ...

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It's all done with mirrors. Touching the spring seems easy, but the image of a spring is made by a big curved concave mirror. Light from a real spring bounces off the mirror to form the image you see.

The late Philip Morrison was an astrophysicist and Institute Professor at MIT, and was also a book review editor for Scientific American. Together with his wife, the late Phylis Morrison, a noted art ...