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Education and Outreach for the museum include:
Children's activities at the museum including fossil identification, junior microscopy, soil hydrology activities, fossil reconstruction, meteor impact, insect pinning, aquatic macroinvertebrate study.
Loan boxes of specimens including local bird museum preps and identification cards, prairie and aquatic insect boxes, mammal skins representing regional mammalian diversity.
Ecological Study Area (ESA), maintained by Dr. Mark Hammer. The ESA is located on the WSC campus and is used in
environmental
education for WSC students and K-12 students from regional schools.
Dr. Hammer in continuing the work of his predecessor, Dr. Chuck Meier,
has worked for over 12 years restoring the 7 acres of ESA land to tall grass
prairie. Please contact Dr. Hammer for further information or to schedule a guided tour of the ESA prairie.Conservation activities such as prairie restoration.
Biological monitoring activities such as biological assessment of IKES Lake.
Artists workshops. The museum will lend specimens for use by area artists and also will host artist workshops on site.
Environmental Education and training sessions for local volunteer groups and citizen scientists.