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Are you ready to try it yourself? Rick Crosslin has some great ideas. A list is included in each section.
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Rick Crosslin is currently the School Liaison for Science Learning at the Indianapolis Children’s Museum, on sabbatical from his position as science teacher at MSD Wayne Township in Indianapolis. He has received numerous awards throughout his 30 year career, recognizing him as an outstanding classroom (and out of the classroom) teacher. Among these are being named a Christa McAuliffe Fellow and receiving the 1998 Milken National Educator Award. Crosslin has taught students ranging from pre-school to grad school, from Indiana to Cairo, Egypt. He has 20 years of experience with summer camps and athletic programs, including nature instruction and soccer coaching. He continues to create programs designed to make the learning experience exciting and rewarding for kids. He won an Emmy award for his program “Tale of the Bone,” produced with WFYI, Indianapolis Public Television. Everywhere he goes, Crosslin shares his life motto: “This is science. Try it yourself!” |
Join one of the state’s most honored and respected teachers on a journey to discover how real science impacts our lives every day. Rick Crosslin knows science is cool – now he’s teamed up with WFYI to show kids and their teachers just how it rocks our world. From a real-life dinosaur dig to a bizarre suit made from Diet Coke, Crosslin opens eyes to the incredible things taking place around us every day.
Rick follows real dinosaur bones from a dig site in South Dakota as they come out of the earth and ultimately make their way to the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. TOOL KIT
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 A nighttime crawdad hunt highlights the amazing array of creatures found in Indiana’s natural waterways. But the fun doesn’t stop there as viewers see how to build their own water habitat, plus learn ways of conserving this precious natural resource. Water, the currency of life. TOOL KIT
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 Bring out the amazing Diet Coke suit! What can the soft drink show us about our physical world? You have to see this to believe it! Viewers will watch the real process of creating steel and see what happens when a hospital lets Rick in to investigate with its Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine.” TOOL KIT
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