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| NAME: |
Tales from the Underground |
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| DESCRIPTION: |
On-line learning lab, and companion to the Reusable City exhibit and the Tales From the Underground learning lab at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago. |
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| ACCOMPLICES: |
Chicago area students and residents who have been sighted testing the soil in their backyards for nitrogen, pH, and phosphorous, key elements in determining the health of the soil. They are rumored to have entered their findings into a secret web site known only as the Map of the Underground. |
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| MOTIVE: |
To create a map of the Chicago area that documents the levels of nitrogen, pH, and phosphorous at points throughout the Chicago area, and in the process have school groups apply what they learn about the environment in the classroom to the world around them. |
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MODUS
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Members of the Underground, notably Chicago area students and residents, write or call the Museum of Science and Industry requesting kits to test the soil in their schools and backyards. These Underground Agents then enter their results on the Map of the Underground, at a secret web site known as Tales From the Underground. |
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| HISTORY: |
The Museum of Science and Industry has had a long history of developing programs focusing on the environment, specifically the Underground. Their exhibit Reusable City, first unleashed in September 1998, has introduced millions of visitors to the intrigue of the Underground. The learning lab associated with that exhibit, also called Tales From the Underground, has gone further, training school groups to be secret agents and to expose the secret stories told within the Earth. Now the Museum has taken to the Web, with an on-line laboratory that contains a constantly growing database of results from soil tests.
The next step is up to you. Will you view the Map of the Underground in its current state of development and see how it works? Or will you look at the on-line activities on this site, or follow the trail of our web links. Remember, the fate of the world is in your hands. Good luck.
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