ABSTRACT
This chapter creates the Juicy Question activity as part of a broader research project designed to explore a variety of techniques for enhancing visitor group inquiry at science museum exhibits. The research itself consisted of a study with two different audiences—family groups and field trip groups—in which we compared the inquiry behaviors of groups using Juicy Question to those of control groups who learned no inquiry activity. The chapter conducts separate studies with family and field trip groups, the results we found with those groups turned out to be quite similar. It describes previously unpublished results that combine the two audiences to clarify our conclusion that Juicy Question successfully enhances group inquiry. Compared with controls, Juicy Question improved both family and field trip groups' performance on nearly all of our measures of inquiry—enhancing the skills that author taught explicitly and several additional ones that author never mentioned.
