A few years ago I got a call from Kristie Maher, Executive Director of the South Dakota Discovery Center and Aquarium, Hands On Children’s Museum in Pierre SD. She explained to me that one of the most successful things they do at the Center is put together different displays that can be hauled by trailers to many towns in South Dakota. When they are set up, they explain things like electricity, light and color, dinosaur and animals as architects. She told me the next display they would like to put on the road was an exhibit revolving around 
Termespheres and the Termes concepts such as Six Point Perspective, the study of polyhedra, puzzles, tessellations, and mirrored spheres. I asked how they were going to do this. She said that they weren’t, I was. So I spent the next four months putting together the UP DOWN AND ALL AROUND exhibit for Hands on Partnership. It was very exciting to put together. It allowed me to create stations that explored my thoughts and concepts in a concrete way. If you take a look at the video you will see what I mean:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSXvdO7Lspw
There are nine station in the UP DOWN AND ALL AROUND Termesphere exhibit .
-There are two original Termespheres at the entrance to the display.
-A perspective station where participants can explore One through Five Point Perspective drawings.
-A study of optical illusions
-Three dimensional puzzles that go from the sphere to the polyhedron. Magnetic puzzle pieces assemble on a polyhedron, when it is together, it is an image of a 
Termesphere in polyhedron form.
-Puzzles and tessellations which come from flattened tetrahedrons are magnetized to mount on a metal wall panel.
-A Mobius strip growing from one of my Four Point Perspective drawings that can be colored and then assembled.
-A station where students put together Termes images called Captured Worlds, five polyhedron shapes that have total environments on them.
-Tetra Art flat puzzles growing from the Tetrahedron and the many ways they fit together.
-An area exploring the mirrored ball and the geometry within its reflection.
Three DVD players are also part of the display, explaining:
An interactive video on One to Five Point Perspective.
An interactive video on 3D structures and how to create them
An explanation of Termespheres and the concepts behind them
What makes UP DOWN AND ALL AROUND very exciting for me is to watch participants see how ideas that intrigued me also intrigue them. For more information on how to get UP DOWN AND ALL AROUND in your town contact Anne Lewis annelewis@sd-discovery.com
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Good timing, Dick. The Termesphere exhibit is up right now at the SD Discovery Center in Pierre. We are open 7-days a week and would love folks to drop in and play with your ideas.
This is a great science and math exhibit, but I encourage art teachers to bring it to their schools as well. Middle and high school art teachers could make a really interesting month of lessons from this exhibit.