Explore Evolution

“探索进化”是一个为期三年的项目，使用旅行展品和活动套件的组合，介绍进化的概念，博物馆观众和4-H组。 六个博物馆合作伙伴将合作开发11个互动展览模块，主题如下：人类疾病、动物眼睛发育、果蝇多样性、性选择、类人猿的发育和灭绝。 博物馆联盟包括堪萨斯博物馆和生物多样性中心、落基山脉博物馆（MT）、山姆·诺布尔俄克拉荷马州自然历史博物馆、明尼苏达科学博物馆、内布拉斯加州立大学博物馆和密歇根大学展览博物馆。 基于调查的活动套件将仿照内布拉斯加大学林肯分校的“Wonderwise”套件，部分由NSF资助，并为中学观众设计。 将推出一个“探索进化”网站，以支持展览和活动套件。 传播将通过博物馆教育项目以及爱荷华州、明尼苏达州、蒙大拿州、密歇根州、内布拉斯加州和怀俄明州的4-H项目联盟进行。 预计将有超过180万博物馆参观者和80万4-H会员参与该项目。

"Explore Evolution" is a three-year project that uses a combination of traveling exhibits and activity kits to introduce the concept of evolution to museum audiences and 4-H groups. Six museum partners will collaborate on the development of eleven interactive exhibit modules on the following topics: disease in humans, eye development in animals, fruit fly diversity, sexual selection, hominoid development and extinction. The museum consortium includes the Kansas Museum and Biodiversity Center, Museum of the Rockies (MT), Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Science Museum of Minnesota, University of Nebraska State Museum and the Exhibits Museum of the University of Michigan. The inquiry-based activity kits will be modeled after the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's "Wonderwise" kits, funded in part by NSF, and designed for middle school audiences. An "Explore Evolution" website will be launched to support the exhibits and activity kits. Dissemination will occur through museum education programs as well as a consortium of 4-H programs in Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Michigan, Nebraska and Wyoming. It is anticipated that more than 1.8 million museum visitors and 800,000 4-H members will participate in this project.