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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

These tiger adventures explore tiger biology, ecology, and conservation through role play and simulations. Track down a runaway tiger, design a zoo exhibit, and much more.