The Bell Museum was a pioneer of hands-on natural history exhibits. This online interactive brings the wonders of the museum's Touch and See room to the Web. Discover mysterious natural objects (a new one each time you visit!), identify skulls, and figure out what habitats turtles call home.

eduweb's role: Interactivity design, visual design, photography, videography, and production.

Ever wish you could get behind the glass of a diorama? Explore a Bell Museum diorama to find some surprising connections, learn how and why dioramas were made, and design your own habitat diorama.

eduweb's role: Interactivity design, visual design, illustration and production.

Wolves are naturally compelling animals. The subject of folklore and legend around the world, wolves inspire excitement, fear and wonder, but never complacency. WolfQuest merges the natural mystery and charisma of wolves with the immersive, compelling drama and action of video games to create a new model for conservation education. A free downloadable game funded by the National Science Foundation, WolfQuest teaches wolf behavior and ecology through exciting 3D gameplay and intense social interactions both in the game and through the WolfQuest website.

WolfQuest: Amethyst Mountain Deluxe expands upon the initial episode of the game released last December. Learn about wolf ecology by living the life of a wild wolf in Yellowstone National Park. Playing alone or with friends in online multiplayer missions, explore the wilderness, hunt elk, and successfully encounter other wolves in your search for a mate. The Deluxe edition includes grizzly bears that steal your carcasses, multiplayer pack rallies, and over 200 other enhancements and bug fixes. In addition, when you find a mate, it now helps you hunt and harass grizzlies.

The WolfQuest experience goes beyond the game with an active, safe, on-line community where kids discuss the game with other players, chat with wolf biologists, and share artwork and stories about wolves. This forum is actively managed by educators and wolf biologists who connect the WolfQuest gameplaying experience with the real world of wolf conservation and provide opportunities for interested players to engage with real wolf issues.

eduweb's role: Initial conceptualization, grantwriting, game design and development, 3D modeling and animation, game programming, Web production, and user testing.

The Minnesota Zoo's Teacher Resource Center offers many exciting resources to help teachers plan their next visit to the Minnesota Zoo, including:

• Field trip planning materials
• Orientation video for teachers, chaperones, and students
• Pre-visit, on-site, and post-visit activities and worksheets
• Multimedia resources for browsing and downloading for student powerpoints and movies

eduweb's role: Information architecture, video scriptwriting, production and editing, database programming, and Web production.

Zam's Quest is a unique standards-based curriculum for 5th and 6th grade students that engages, empowers and activates kids to learn about nature and take action to address local conservation issues. In four sequential units, Zam's Quest moves kids along a learning continuum. Using the time-tested, role play technique students are able to: understand different points of view in a conservation issue, successfully analyze an issue and discuss solutions, understand the complexity of today's problems, and personally take action on a local conservation dilemma.

The Zam's Quest Web site supports and extends the curriculum by offering:

• Photos and video clips of the people and animals from each unit.
• A Comic Book Maker that lets kids create and share their own stories and solutions for conservation issues.
• Experts' blogs from the field.
• Spotlights on local conservation issues for regions around the country.

eduweb's role: Information architecture, interactivity design, visual design, animation, programming, and production.

How can zoos help save endangered species? By breeding them in captivity, in hopes of someday releasing animals back into their original habitats. This interactive places you in charge of a breeding program for endangered tigers. Choose from several breeding plans, then make the best matches to ensure tiger survival. Along the way, you'll learn about tiger genetics and the basic rules of inheritance.

eduweb collaborated with Minnesota Zoo staff to develop the matchmaker game concept, balancing challenging gameplay with substantial genetics content. And by incorporating the same calculations used by real breeding managers, the game accurately reflects the real-world challenges facing zoos today.

eduweb's role: Concept development, interactivity design, content development, visual design, programming, production, and user testing.

What are pests? Think of them as animals out of place. Out in nature, they're just doing their jobs. But when they move into our homes and yards, that's when we call them pests.

Collaborating with the NPMA and its public relations agency, FCF Schmidt, eduweb developed a diverse array of offerings to meet many user needs and interests: amazing facts, in-depth information, interactive games, and curricular lesson plans that get you up close and personal with these bizarre yet all-too-familiar critters. You'll never look at an ant or cockroach in the same way again.

Designed primarily for elementary school-age kids and schoolteachers, this site has something for everyone. Who can resist sending a PestCard featuring a talking termite?

eduweb's role: Concept development, information architecture, scriptwriting, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, production, and usability testing.

Shedd Educational Adventures (SEA) contains a treasure trove of aquatic science resources for K-12 teachers and students. SEA brings the Philippines to life for your students with fact sheets and multimedia interactives based on the Wild Reef exhibit at Shedd Aquarium.

• Help Squish the Fish find lunch (a role-play story for grades K-2)
• Build a fish and try to survive on the reef (a simulation for grades 3-6)
• Make a movie about life on a coral reef (creative play for grades 4-6)
• Solve a mystery in the Philippines (a puzzle/mystery for grades 6-9)
• Solve a mystery in the Philippines (a puzzle/mystery for grades 6-9)
• Research seahorse conservation (an interactive reference for grades 9-12)

Plus K-12 lesson plans, fact sheets about plants, animals and culture, and more! Dive into the SEA today!

eduweb's role: Information architecture, visual design, programming, and production for the entire SEA site. Also concept and content development, illustration, animation, programming and production for the interactive modules.

Play this high-stakes role-playing simulation to save Panama's forests from the ravages of an exotic fast-growing grass! Can you plant the right kinds of tree and take care of them until they shade and kill the grass? This simulation is based on real-world data and allows students to make numerous choices and compare results. [Note: This digital lab is part of a subscription program and not freely accessible.]

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.

(Subscription program; no free access. Learn more about the JASON Foundation for Education.)

Every species in the rain forest must find food, avoid being eaten, and mate in order to survive. Build a tropical beetle and see how different adaptations are suited to different habitats. Only the best designs survive in this addictive, deceptively simple game! [Note: This digital lab is part of a subscription program and not freely accessible.]

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.

(Subscription program; no free access. Learn more about the JASON Foundation for Education.)

Join Lewis & Clark and head west in this interactive role-playing game combined with creative play. As you journey westward, you can stop along the way and explore, collecting plants and animals and trading with Indians for cultural objects. What you collect and send back to Thomas Jefferson will shape his view (and by extension the American view) of these new lands. (This is a demo version of this game, which is part of Colonial Williamsburg's Electronic Field Trip program.)

With Jefferson's West, we sought to combine engaging gameplay with personal storytelling in an adventure about the Lewis & Clark expedition. The hybrid role play/creative play approach offers various types and degrees of interactivity to allow a satisfying experience for users with differing levels of engagement.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.

Brookfield Zoo wanted an online game to complement their new Ituri Forest exhibit, focusing on the many "ways of knowing" the forest that stem from cultural perspectives and knowledge. We collaborated with Education staff on the story and script, creating a walk through the rainforest with four local children as your guide. Through them, users learn about the forest through their eyes. We then created full screen illustrations and animations for a rich storybook look.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.

This Web site is a companion to the zoo's Hamill Family Play Zoo, which seeks to foster stronger bonds between children and nature. The Web site includes an entertaining "Caregiver Challenge" designed to help parents create opportunities for thier children to bond with nature. The site also includes an abundance of nature activities to get parents and children out enjoying nature, plus information about the Play Zoo.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.

Developed for Earth Day 2001, this site takes its theme literally with a close examination of the earth beneath our feet. The main feature is the Soil Safari, where you shrink down to microscopic scale and explore worms, bugs, amoebae, and more, in pursuit of a solution to an environmental disaster.

This digital lab models a real-world proce of community-based ecosystem management. The ecosystem is the Channels Islands off the California coast—ecologically rich and economically important. A local group has been working together to establish a new marine reserve that will sustain the natural ecology of the Channel Islands without hurting the human community is not easy. It's like solving a puzzle—and so far, no one has figured out a solution that everyone can accept. Using avatars representing each stakeholder in the group, students can try to find a successful and satisfctory solution to this challenge.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.

Working with Bell LIVE!, the Bell Museum's distance learning program, eduweb developed online activities and resources about prairie ecology and restoration. In Build-A-Prairie, players choose flora and fauna for a prairie restoration project. Correct choices are rewarded with engaging animations and, ultimately, the chance to set a controlled burn.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.

In our first collaboration with Bell LIVE!, eduweb developed this interactive quiz about watershed ecology and conservation.

eduweb's role: Visual design, illustration, animation, QTVR photography, programming, and production.

This interactive virtual reality tour takes visitors aboard the research vessel on Lake Superior and lets them explore the ships labs, bridge and even the engine room.

eduweb's role: Concept development, visual design, QTVR photography, programming, and production.

This online complement to a traveling exhibition mixes art, science, and technology for a multi-faceted exploration of dinosaurs, biology, and kinetic sculpture.

eduweb's role: Content development, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.

In this, our very first digital lab for JASON Foundation for Education, students examine photographs of coral reefs to see how the reefs have changed over time.

eduweb's role: Visual design, programming, and production.

Subscription program; demo only

What do mollusks and global climatechange have in common? That was eduweb's challengein the development of this touch-screen kiosk interactive for the permanent mollusk gallery at Biosphere 2. We packaged this highly technical scientific subject with a light touch that evokes hard-boiled mysteries ofthe 1940s.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, animation, audio recording, programming, and production.

This touch-screen kiosk highlights the incredible diversity of the mollusks and provides interpretation for mollusk shell specimens exhibited in the Biosphere 2 Center mollusk gallery. Users are guided through the process of identifying a chosen specimen by a friendly detective character. Successful identification produces a cladogram, or evolutionary family tree, of the mollusk groups represented in the exhibit.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, animation, audio recording, programming, and production.

This 2 minute animated video explains how the chemistry of mollusk shell deposition responds to the environment the animal lives in. The mollusk's physiology is whimsically and colorfully represented as a busy, futuristic factory that processes outside materials into living shell.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, animation, audio recording, mixing, and video production.

Since 1998, we have developed more than twenty digital labs for the award-winning JASON Foundation for Education distance-learning program. Each digital lab explores real-world science in an engaging goal-based scenario that explores both the topic at hand and the ways that scientists formulate questions and conduct research. On topics ranging from ecology to extraterrestrial volcanoes, our digital labs have given students a hands-on experience with scientific investigation.

Our most recent labs are described below. Some are publicly available but most are available only to JASON subscribers. Go to JASON Foundation for Education's web site.