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Sprouts Lab Opening Week Events 

Maggie2022-09-21T18:45:04-04:00September 30, 2019|Categories: News, Press Release|Tags: babies, experiment, Sprouts Lab, toddlers|

Celebrate the opening of Science Sprouts Place with special Sprouts Lab activities!  In honor of Science Sprouts Place, Wonderlab is [...]

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Science Sprouts Place Opens at WonderLab

Maggie2022-09-21T18:47:12-04:00September 26, 2019|Categories: Exhibits, News, Press Release, Wonderlab Education Blog|Tags: babies, bloomington in, children, early childhood education, families, hands-on learning, Hands-on Science, science sprouts place, Southern Indiana, toddler, toddlers, WonderLab, wonderlab museum|

Science Sprouts Place, the newest exhibit area at WonderLab, opens to the public on Saturday, October 5, 2019. The new [...]

Pollution: Part Two – How Trash Travels

Maggie2019-09-06T09:00:36-04:00September 6, 2019|Categories: WonderLab Alive!|Tags: Conservation, Plastic, Pollution, travel|

In Pollution: Part One - The Plight of Plastics. I wrote about the dangers of plastic to our environment. There [...]

Gear up for BubbleFest 2019 with Bubble Science!

Maggie2019-08-16T09:00:49-04:00August 16, 2019|Categories: Programs, Wonderlab Education Blog|Tags: 2019, Bloomington Indiana, bubble, bubble science, bubblefest, labor day weekend, Science, Southern Indiana, WonderLab, wonderlab museum|

WonderLab’s BubbleFest is back at the museum for a second consecutive year! This Labor Day weekend WonderLab will be overflowing [...]

Listen to the Bees

Maggie2024-05-09T20:03:03-04:00August 9, 2019|Categories: Thoughts Behind the Wonder|Tags: Bees, climate, climate science, environment, environmental science, Honey Bees, Pheromones, wonder, WonderLab, Wonderlab bee hive|

“Bees have so much to offer us if we only listen.” – Jay Ebben from Painted Hives After checking weekly [...]

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Special Benefit for WonderLab Members September 1- October 4, 2019

Maggie2022-09-21T18:48:46-04:00July 29, 2019|Categories: Membership, News, Press Release|Tags: angel mounds, benefit, corydon capital state historic site, culbertson mansion, gene stratton-porter, history, Indiana, indiana state museum, indiana state museum and historical sites, lanier mansion, learning, levi & catherine coffin, limberlost, membership, new harmony, Science, t.c. steele, travel, vincennes state historic site, whitewater canal, WonderLab|

Free Admission at the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites From September 1 through October 4, 2019 WonderLab Members will [...]

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WonderLab Welcomes Asha Kirchhoff to the Board of Directors

Maggie2022-09-21T18:49:58-04:00July 19, 2019|Categories: Mission, News, Press Release|Tags: Asha Kirkhhoff, bioengieering, cook medical, WonderLab Board of Directors|

Asha Kirkhhoff joins the WonderLab Board of Directors. Photo by Ahsan Hameed Asha Kirchhoff, bio-engineer by trade and [...]

Celebrate the Moon Landing 50th Anniversary at WonderLab

Maggie2019-07-17T16:28:01-04:00July 17, 2019|Categories: News|Tags: anniversary party, apollo 11, astronomy, launch, moon landing, NASA, night at the museum, outer space, rocket science, rockets, Science, solar system, space, space travel, WonderLab|

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing during WonderLab’s special event Night at the Museum: Moon Landing [...]

Baby Brains: A New Laboratory for Studying Child Development

Maggie2019-07-12T09:00:51-04:00July 12, 2019|Categories: Exhibits, Mission, Programs, Support, Wonderlab Education Blog|Tags: 2019 Norman Anderson Lifetime Achievement Award, Aditya Belamkar, babies, Bloomington, childhood, Cognitive development, developmental research, early childhood education, experimental psychology, head camera, Indiana, indiana university, lab-based research, learning, learning models, linda smith, Psychological and Brain Science, psychology, Science, Science Museum, science sprouts, science sprouts place, Southern Indiana, WonderLab, wonderlabsciencemuseum|

A conversation with Dr. Linda Smith – Bringing Head Cameras Home  Dr. Linda Smith. Photo courtesy of Linda Smith [...]

Teach the Teachers, Teach the World

Maggie2024-05-09T19:48:45-04:00July 6, 2019|Categories: Thoughts Behind the Wonder|Tags: atmospheric science, Bloomington, bloomington high school south, Bloomington Indiana, climate change, earth science, emmy brockman, environmental science, indiana university, IU Grand Challenge, IU Griffy Nature Preserve, kirstin milks, michael hamburger, phillipa tanford, Science, science poster sessions, STEAM, Summer Science Institute, teacher training, teaching teachers, wonderlab museum, wonderlabsciencemuseum|

Educating for Environmental Change: Summer Science Institutes Prepare Teachers with Real World Training 2018 SSI Institute Poster Session [...]