WonderLab Stays Connected to Volunteers Amid COVID-19 Closure

Maggie2023-07-11T11:05:44-04:00June 19, 2020|Categories: Mission, Programs, Support, Thoughts Behind the Wonder|

When COVID-19 forced WonderLab's closure in early March, our staff shifted into overdrive to begin creating digital content and other [...]

Blast Off! NASA’s New Era

Maggie2020-06-05T18:36:58-04:00June 5, 2020|Categories: Thoughts Behind the Wonder, Wonderlab Education Blog|Tags: apollo mission, Aretemis program, astronaut, astronomy, Douglas Hurley, dragon, dreams, Elon Musk, endeavour, international space station, launch, mission control, mission to mars, NASA, puff the magic dragon, Robert Behnken, space, space flight, space launch, space program, space shuttle, Space x, spacecraft|

Photo by Mariam Espacio. Milky Way across the starry sky. It all started with a dream. Not the [...]

What’s the Buzz?

Maggie2020-05-22T18:00:34-04:00May 22, 2020|Categories: Exhibits, Thoughts Behind the Wonder, WonderLab Alive!|Tags: Bees, biology, Hive, Honey Bees, Museum, Nuc, Pheromone, Queen, Science, Swarming, WonderLab|

Springtime: Flowers are blooming, birds are chirping, and bees are buzzing back to WonderLab! This is an especially exciting time [...]

The Bustling World of Beetles

Maggie2019-12-15T10:00:46-05:00December 15, 2019|Categories: Thoughts Behind the Wonder|Tags: Animals, beetles, bombardier beetles, eastern hercules beetle, entomology, insects, metamorphosis, Science, tiger beetles, WonderLab|

Eastern Hercules Beetle carcass. Photo by Niha Alaspuri Beetles are pretty awesome insects. They can be found in [...]

Bubbling Over with Science

Maggie2019-12-06T10:56:30-05:00December 6, 2019|Categories: Thoughts Behind the Wonder|Tags: bubble, bubble flow, bubbles, foam, physics, WonderLab|

Some of my favorite memories from childhood include running around, blowing bubbles in my backyard. A neon bottle of bubbles [...]

Does it flow? Can it flow?

Maggie2019-11-23T09:00:13-05:00November 23, 2019|Categories: Thoughts Behind the Wonder|Tags: boiling point, cold, condensation, critical temperature, flow, honey, liquid, molecules, pressure, properties, surface tension, vaporization, viscosity, water|

Yesterday, while working on a paper, I spilled a cup of coffee. It went everywhere! While rushing around trying to [...]

Listen to the Bees

Maggie2019-08-09T09:00:50-04:00August 9, 2019|Categories: Thoughts Behind the Wonder|Tags: Bees, climate, climate science, environment, environmental science, Honey Bees, Pheromones, wonder, WonderLab, Wonderlab bee hive|

“Bees have so much to offer us if we only listen.” – Jay Ebben from Painted Hives After checking weekly [...]

Teach the Teachers, Teach the World

Maggie2019-07-06T14:15:28-04:00July 6, 2019|Categories: Thoughts Behind the Wonder|Tags: atmospheric science, Bloomington, bloomington high school south, Bloomington Indiana, climate change, earth science, emmy brockman, environmental science, indiana university, IU Grand Challenge, IU Griffy Nature Preserve, kirstin milks, michael hamburger, phillipa tanford, Science, science poster sessions, STEAM, Summer Science Institute, teacher training, teaching teachers, wonderlab museum, wonderlabsciencemuseum|

Educating for Environmental Change: Summer Science Institutes Prepare Teachers with Real World Training 2018 SSI Institute Poster Session [...]

WonderLab Life Lessons: A Service Learning Reflection

Maggie2019-05-17T15:05:54-04:00May 17, 2019|Categories: Mission, Thoughts Behind the Wonder|Tags: build, children, destroy, discovery, facilitated learning, fulfillment, hands-on learning, learn, problem solving, questions, response, service-learning, thinking outside the box, volunteer, wonder, WonderLab|

Photo by Andrea Golden On my first visit to the WonderLab, I wandered through children and parents on [...]

New Science Toys Are Sure to Wow and Delight

Maggie2019-05-10T16:30:39-04:00May 10, 2019|Categories: Mission, News, Thoughts Behind the Wonder|Tags: american international toy fair, brain toys, bubbles, fidgets, fun, gift store, gifts, glove a bubble, math games, plasma ball, play, science sprouts, science sprouts place, shop local bloomington, specialty toys, STEM builds, stickbots, toy, toys, WonderLab, wonderlab museum|

As the Manager of the WonderLab Gift Store and WonderCamp Director, Colleen Couper, is the obvious choice as an ambassador [...]