Informal Science Education Projects
Natural History Mystery
An IMLS-funded project with the University of California Museum of Paleontology to create an immersive educational puzzle hunt game exploring museum exhibits on the topic of evolution and common ancestry using zoonotic disease scenario.
STEM Escape
National Institute of Health (NIH) SEPA-funded project with the University of California Museum of Paleontology to design and evaluate a bilingual English/Spanish pop-up science escape room, VENOMventure | aVENONOtura, to teach evolutionary relationships, engage critical thinking and collaboration skills and more.
Microbes on the Move
An NSF EPSCoR-funded project for a traveling pop-up museum with natural history collections and hands-on activities to teach about microbial diversity. Additional NSF funding supported a bilingual English/Spanish version that traveled to Salina, Dodge City and Garden City over the 2022 summer.
Pop-Up Paleontology
A donor funded project for a traveling pop-up museum with KU natural history collections and hands-on activities to teach families across Kansas about paleontology.
The Tree Room
An IMLS-funded National Leadership project to create a tree portal website with learning research, curriculum materials, and guides and tools on how to effectivelyuse and teach about the tree of life for teachers and museum professionals.
Fish Tree of Life
NSF-funded curriculum unit on fishes, the evidence used to study their relationships, and interpreting phylogenetic trees, and an online module featuring stories about the relationships, shared characters and evolution of fishes.
Adventures at Nanoscale
An NSF ISE-funded animated video following the adventures of youth characters and their subatomic alter-egos as they explore how electrical conductors and high temperature superconductors work.
Quarked! Adventures in the Subatomic Universe
Collaborative particle physics education project with multiple funders (NSF, Kauffman Foundation, EPSCoR) that developed science education school programs at the museum and a national website with interactive games, lesson plans, and other educational resources.
