The American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office, in partnership with the National Center for Interactive Learning at Space Science Institute, the Lunar and Planetary Institute and the National Girls Collaborative Project, have announced that 10 public libraries will host an interactive travelling exhibition called Discover Earth: A Century of Change.
Discover Earth is made possible through the support of the National Science Foundation. The exhibition and its educational support materials and outreach opportunities are part of the STAR (Science-Technology Activities and Resources) Library Education Network (STAR_Net), a hands-on learning program for libraries and their communities.
Discover Earth will tour from January 2012 to December 2013, visiting each of the 10 selected sites for a period of eight weeks. Each site will receive a grant of $1,000 to support public programmes related to the exhibition and join a national Community of Practice (CoP), accessible at http://community.discoverexhibits.org. More information about Discover Earth, STAR_Net and the CoP is available at www.ala.org/discoverearth.
The Discover Earth exhibition will focus on local earth science topics - such as weather, water cycle and ecosystem changes - as well as a global view of our changing planet. The primary message of the exhibition is that the global environment changes – and is changed by – the local environment of all exhibition hosts’ communities. Interactive, multimedia displays will allow exhibit visitors to interact with digital information in a dynamic way, encouraging new perspectives on our planet.
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