Liz CrockerLearning Program Developer

Studying bats is a great way to learn about mammals, adaptations and habitats and you don't have to do it in the dark! Check out the second edition of the Bats of British Columbia Handbook! Explore the Community Bat Programs of BC website: https://bcbats.ca/ Check out UBC's E-Fauna BC for information about your local bats.  

In 2020, while taking a Directed Studies course with Dr. Victoria Arbour at the University of Victoria, student Elizabeth Rohlicek got the chance to work closely with fossils at the Royal BC Museum.

Royal BC Museum botany collections manager Heidi Guest, shared this recipe for Spanakopita using stinging nettle instead of spinach in the RBCM@Outside Sting! program on March 10, 2021.

April is Sikh Heritage Month. This playlist presents resources referred to and used in a Royal BC Museum educator webinar on April 21, 2020. Author Steven Purewal and educator Annie Ohana joined us for a conversation about exploring Sikh heritage in the classroom and linking it to BC school curriculum. This playlist also includes Indus…

Print off these illustrations by Royal BC Museum curator of vertebrate zoology, Dr. Gavin Hanke and colour away! Colour from your imagination (what colours would you like your fish to be?) or check online sources to find out real life colours of these fishes. Keep in mind that the colour you see depends on: what…

On May 20, 2020, Dr. Nancy Turner led us through a virtual plant walk on Protection Island, British Columbia during an RBCM@outside program. View the program here. Explore 'A Plant Walk on Protection Island' by Dr. Turner and Native Plants of the South Coast on the Learning Portal. Royal BC Museum books by Dr. Turner:…

On June 3, 2020 RBCM@ outside host Liz Crocker and WildBC Facilitator Stephanie Weinstein from Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation introduced and demonstrated some of their favourite nature activities to share with children, including making pooters! View the program here. Explore the resources in this playlist for more ideas. Look for photos of Dr. Joel Gibson, curator…

This playlist collects Learning Portal resources to support sessions at the Historical Thinking Winter Institute at Royal BC Museum February 15 & 16, 2019. It also supports activities or lessons you can do back in the classroom or wherever you work, including primary sources from BC Archives and suggestions on how to investigate these sources…

This short video is part of the Royal BC Museum This Week in History series on Chek TV. It was recorded in fall of 2018. It gives a brief overview of what the Learning Portal is about and some of the technologies we are using to improve your experience here on the Portal.

This playlist was created to support workshop participants at the BC Museums Association Conference 2017. The session Interventions for Change explored intervention strategies scalable for museums of any size to be used in school programs or special events. Learn about an intervention with the Punjabi community at the Royal BC Museum here.       

Looking closely at insects from the Royal BC Museum entomology collection, teacher Andrew Gibbs led his students in an art activity inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe. Dive into this playlist for activity details and samples of student work. Andrew Gibbs father, Richard Gibbs worked at the museum as a taxidermist. Richard Gibbs with Woolly mammoth below.