The Exploratorium's Cookbooks have been used by exhibit builders all over the world. In a working class neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, visitors to a science museum can experiment with a half-silvered mirror at an exhibit based on the Exploratorium exhibit Everyone is You and Me. In Canberra, Australia's new science museum has created many exhibits from the Exploratorium's Cookbooks and has put their exhibit development shop in the open for public viewing, just as the Exploratorium did. In Bombay, India, a new science center used Exploratorium exhibit ideas to create an outdoor playground which demonstrates the principles of physics.
Cookbooks I, II, and III are also used extensively by high school, college, and university instructors around the world.
"...a delight to read...I highly recommend...the Exploratorium Cookbooks." -- Gerald Wheeler in Physics Teacher
Exploratorium Cookbook II by Ron Hipschman
52 exhibit recipes: 16 related to light and images, 10 to plant and animal behavior, 7 to electricity and magnetism, 5 to heat and temperature, 5 to the physics of sound, 4 to mechanics, 2 to exponentials, 2 to patterns, and 1 to vision.
ISBN: 0-943451-248. 4th revised edition, 1990, 180 pages, $75.00
Exploratorium Cookbook III by Ron Hipschman
67 exhibit recipes: 19 related to electricity and magnetism, 12 to light, 11 to sound, speech, and heating, 9 to vision, 6 to heat and temperature, 5 to mathematics and patterns, 4 to mechanics, and 1 to neurophysiology.
ISBN: 0-943451-02-7. 1987, 316 pages, $95.00
Working Prototypes: Exhibit Design at the Exploratorium
This twenty-eight page booklet describes the Exploratorium's process of exhibit development. Includes step-by-step accounts of the development of three popular Exploratorium exhibits, as well as an essay on exhibit design by the museum's rounding director, Frank Oppenheimer.
ISBN: 0-943451-08-6. 1986, 28 pages, $5.00
Set of Cookbooks
This set includes all three Cookbooks-a total of 201 exhibit recipes--plus a copy of Working Prototypes: Exhibit Design at the Exploratorium.
ISBN: 943451-03 -5. $250.00
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