ABSTRACT
The Juicy Question activity engages museum-going groups in the act of collaborative inquiry: experimenting with an exhibit to answer specific questions. Juicy Question is simple. First, a group of visitors plays with an interactive exhibit for a few minutes to find out what it's about and learn how it works. At some point, they stop the action, and everyone devises and shares a "Juicy Question"—a question to which no one knows the answer and which can be answered with the exhibit at hand. From the museum's perspective, Juicy Question has two primary goals: to teach two important inquiry skills and to help groups learn to play collaboratively at exhibits. The two skills practiced in Juicy Question are Proposing Actions (asking juicy questions or suggesting something to try) and Interpreting Results (voicing discoveries). Skills like these have been emphasized in inquiry-based school curricula and by researchers studying inquiry learning in museums.
