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This all-at-once electronic experience becomes a trivia buff's paradise. Are most
of the world's fish caught in shallow water? What geologic force helped form Italy and
Sicily? Which direction does the Nile River flow? What does native music from
Oceania sound like?
More than trivia, however, Earth Forum raises tough environmental questions
and encourages visitors to use data and images at their fingertips to seek answers.
Groups of all ages can play the roles of demographers, geographers, statisticians, and
political scientists during one-hour problem-solving simulations. Videophones even
allow "enviro-sleuths" at different workstations to view or talk to each other to
cooperatively study issues and predict the future.
Browsing the global environment at Earth Forum, says Carolyn Sumners, the
museum's director of astronomy and physics, demonstrates "how people around the
planet can be connected on an information superhighway, with the whole world as
close as a computer screen."
Earth Forum hours: Mon-Sat 9-6. Admission: free with regular museum
admission of $3, $2 seniors and under 12 (museum members free). Thursday afternoons
are free to everyone. Workstations are closed to the public if reserved by a group, so
call in advance to check availability. During the school year, grades 5-12 can book
morning Earth Forum simulations Monday through Friday. Cost: $90 per class of up to
30 students plus teachers (includes previsit and postvisit curriculum materials, as well
as museum admission). Make reservations at least two weeks to a month in advance.
For more details write to the Houston Museum of Natural Science, One
Hermann Circle Drive, Houston 77030; call 713/639-4629 or fax 713/639-4635 (Email:
sumners@hmns.mus.tx.us).--00--
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Mallory, Randy. Earth Forum: Browsing the global environment, text, 1996-03~; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1924061/m1/2/: accessed June 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.