Indiana Expeditions
with Rick Crosslin
Thursdays, January 17-31 at 7:30 pm &
Fridays, January 18-25 & February 1 at 3:30 pm
Grab your favorite adventurer’s hat and your sense
of wonder and head into the amazing world of science with WFYI’s
new series, Indiana Expeditions! 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 Crosslin is on leave from the Metropolitan
School District of Wayne Township in Indianapolis,
serving as school liaison for science learning
at the world renowned Children’s
Museum of Indianapolis. After earning an Emmy award for his production “Tale
of a Bone," created with WFYI, Crosslin and WFYI join forces once
again to bring Indiana Expeditions to Public Television. “Science
is for everybody and demands that we get involved," says Crosslin. “Indiana
Expeditions is about science that is accessible
for all of us to try ourselves."
In addition to the multi-part, multi-adventure
series, Crosslin and the Indiana Expeditions
team have created a companion DVD designed to
help teachers’ grades
3-8 take their students even deeper into the fascinating world of
science.
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. Other adventures delve below the earth's surface into Indiana caves and a real coal mine.
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.
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 – a solid, then a liquid, then a solid again. And what happens when a hospital lets Rick in to investigate its Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine? Density, Magnetism and Science Methods all designed for viewers to "try it yourself!"
Grab your favorite adventurer’s hat and your sense
of wonder and head into the amazing world of science with WFYI’s
new series, 
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